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VicSuper updates digital advice offering

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
A refreshed user interface, a new coach avatar and new retirement planning options have been rolled out to VicSuper members after the fund updated its Beeline digital guidance and advice tool. The update means VicSuper members now have a new mix of ...

Advice firm hires from Macquarie Private Wealth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
A former division director at Macquarie Private Wealth has joined a Melbourne-based boutique wealth management firm. Paul Grifa is joining Steward Wealth as a director, along with his long-standing assistant Kiera Lecher. He joins the firm's two founding ...

Global multi-boutique eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... Financial Standard, iM Global Partner chief executive and founder Philippe Couvrecelle laid out the company's three-pronged plan for Australia - raise super fund money for its four boutiques, find new shareholders for iM itself, and to seek out potential ...

Millions of Australian's suffering from financial stress: AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... $150,000 could feel the pinch, with 11% reporting financial stress. Anderson said the research shows well-defined goals and a plan to achieve them gave workers greater peace of mind. "Goals help lift people above the day-to-day expense cycle, allowing ...

Young Aussies backing world's biggest brands

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Young Australians are increasingly investing in the hot international stocks they know and love, latest nabtrade data shows. Latest figures from nabtrade show young traders entered the market in record numbers in 2018, with the number of Gen Z investors ...

ASIC cracks down on non-compliant AFSL

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
ASIC has slapped additional conditions on the AFSL of an advice practice operating on the New South Wales Central Coast. Surveillance by ASIC showed HNW Planning failed to adequately monitor and supervise its representatives. Its audit processes were ...

Industry fund chief executive moves to life insurer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... Statewide Super, the board has started the due diligence and processes to find Nunn's replacement in line with its succession plan, the fund said in a statement. Statewide Super chair Ken Williams said: "The board [is] immensely thankful for the ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
A Melbourne bond manager won a $180 million mandate from UniSuper as the super fund increased its allocation to fixed income. UniSuper appointed Jamieson Coote Bonds to manage about $180 million in Australian government bonds in November. The mandate ...

Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Larry Fink has told chief executives they must embrace a greater responsibility to help employees navigate retirement, highlighting it as a key challenge to the world's future prosperity. In his annual letter to the chief executives of companies backed ...

ASIC seeks new default super partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... members of the fund. The regulator's current default option for employees is the Public Sector Superannuation accumulation plan but the arrangement expires on 30 June 2019, as ASIC will no longer be covered under the Public Service Act 1999. As an ...