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PC puts spotlight on lifecycle super products

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
The Productivity Commission said on its third and final day of hearings in Brisbane it will scrutinise the competitiveness and efficiency of lifecycle and retirement income products in its review of the superannuation system. Productivity Commission ...

Best-in-show list addresses insurance gaps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Creating a best-in-show list of default superannuation funds shouldn't overlook specific needs of members, particularly when it comes to life insurance, according to Cbus. The industry super fund told the Productivity Commission yesterday that while ...

Equal weight portfolios outperform: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Portfolios that assign equal weighting to individual stocks outperform portfolios with market cap-weighted allocations, according to VanEck. In a recently published research paper, VanEck gives a mathematical analysis of this, based on its equally-weighted ...

Industry leaders in sales and marketing recognised at MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
More than 300 guests attended last night's 2018 Financial Standard Marketing, Advertising & Sales (MAX) Excellence Awards, which recognised the outstanding achievements in marketing, sales and business development by an individual, team or organisation ...

US giant acquires Aussie super consulting business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
An NYSE-listed global insurance brokerage and risk management firm is acquiring an Australian superannuation consulting services company along with its technology-based sister firm as part of a continued play into the Australian wealth market. Arthur ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
Given the US equity market's reaction to the latest US Federal Reserve missive, one would think that Wall Street is against strong(er) growth. All major benchmark indices - DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 - closed lower after the Fed announced ...

Parametric wins $60m global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
Parametric won a $60 million mandate for its tax-managed indexing (TMI) strategy from an $8.5 billion super fund. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (ACSRF) previously awarded Parametric an after-tax passive global equities mandate ...

GROW Super seeks RSE licence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... company. "For a lot of the other new entrants, and even for a number of smaller super funds, being a fund in and of itself just isn't going to be sustainable in the long-term and so that creates a lot of opportunities both for and within the industry," ...

Pendal appoints head of investment services

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
Pendal Group has appointed a head of investment services and program office. Justin Howell joins Pendal from LeapFrog Investments, where he was a director. Prior to that, he was investments head of strategy and operations at First State Super. He was ...

Poor SoAs hindering advice process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... saying more than 80% have been over 40 pages long with one in particular stretching to 130 pages. The advice in many SoAs isn't being presented in a succinct way to clients with the information lacking clarity, containing too much jargon, she said. "One ...