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Act now to ensure super sustainability: Cooper

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
BT Financial Group chief executive Brad Cooper has called on the government to raise the super guarantee to 12% and limit reviews of superannuation policy to once every five years. In a speech at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event in Sydney's Barangaroo ...

Global infrastructure outperforming equities and property

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Investment manager Maple-Brown Abbott says there's a clear benefit for investors in separating the investment decision between property and infrastructure in a portfolio. Releasing its latest investment research paper, Maple-Brown Abbott's global listed ...

Pension changes will impact retirement adequacy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Impending changes to the aged pension asset test thresholds will have a significant impact on the number of couples able to achieve a comfortable retirement, according to new research from Willis Towers Watson (WTW). The joint research from WTW and ...

Magellan full year profits up 14%

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
Magellan Financial Group has seen its net after tax profit increase 14% to $198.4 million in the last financial year. Funds under management rose 11% to total $40.5 billion at 30 June with 83% of assets in global equities and 17% in infrastructure equities. ...

AMP Capital details China fund wind-up strategy

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
AMP Capital Funds Management chair Adam Tindall has explained its wind-up strategy for the China Growth Fund (AGF) in an ASX statement. Reiterating that the fund will be wound up "as quickly and as efficiently as we can," Tindall added that the proposed ...

Goal based investing puts retirees in the spotlight

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
A focus on the accumulator and obsession with superannuation has shifted the focus away from retirement investment, according to AMP Capital who is set to launch two new goals based products. Through focusing on a goal based approach, AMP Capital hopes ...

Keybridge chair ousted in Bentley coup

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
Keybridge Capital's chair has departed following the extraordinary general meeting triggered by Bentley Capital. In Andrew Moffat's wake, Bentley nominees Simon Cato and William Johnson have been appointed to the board, and deputy chair Bill Brown has ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
Exchange traded fund providers and financial advisers need to leverage the "enormous winds" created by ETFs in building better client investment portfolios, according to a leading industry executive. Speaking at the Financial Standard Exchange Traded ...

TAL launches ad campaign as LIF top of mind

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
Australia's largest life insurer, TAL, has launched a new consumer brand campaign to open the dialogue between Australians and life insurers. The campaign, which launched on national television on Sunday 24 July, hopes to raise the awareness of the ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
Fixed income investors will risk paying to lose money unless they're prepared to change their approach to benchmarks, according to infrastructure fund manager QIC. Positive yields have been upturned as a number of key central banks have put negative ...