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Shoddy exam feedback fuels adviser stress

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021
... was only recently made available. Fifty-eight percent of the 2129 advisers who sat the recent November exam failed - the highest fail rate in the short history of the exams. The pass rate continues to deteriorate from as high as 88% to 69% and 60% in ...

Adviser population drops below 19,000

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... precisely 2286 left the industry throughout the year. The SMSF Advisers Network dominates the adviser landscape, with the highest number of active advisers at 635. AMP Financial Planning (599) and Morgans Financial (473) round out the top three. Meanwhile ...

HESTA leads trustee board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
Superannuation fund HESTA has the highest number of women on its trustee board with nine females versus five males. An analysis of APRA's fund-level superannuation data as at June 2021 shows the $67 billion fund has tipped the gender imbalance as ...

Do inflows follow performance?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... Australian equities small cap active funds which saw an average return of 3.3% in the 12 months to September 2020. The highest return was 24.6% and the lowest was -13.5%. The following year the top performing fund's assets nearly doubled despite ...

Partners Wealth Group launches Partners Private

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... in investments. "PWG's retail and wholesale clients can be more assured that they are accessing harder to find and the highest quality offerings from each asset class, and not have to decide for themselves from a very long list of options that may be ...

Retirees require 3.3% drawdown: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
... probability that their portfolios will last over a 30-year time horizon," Morningstar said. Using a conservative approach, the highest safe withdrawal rates come from portfolios that hold 30% to 60% stock positions. "This occurs not because fixed-income ...

Industry fund chief steps down, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2021
... outstanding. She has led with passion and enthusiasm to integrate our people and processes. The trustee and staff hold her in the highest regard," she said.

Largest asset owners grow: WTW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... Outsourced Chief Investment Officers and Master Trusts. Australian institutional investors account for six of the 100. Ranking highest is the Future Fund at 42 nd, moving up 15 places. Also ranking in the top 100 are AustralianSuper (46), Aware Super ...

Super assets rise to $3.4tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... assets are split across fixed income (18%), cash (10%), property (8%), infrastructure (6%) and other (3%). MySuper is the highest-growing product, rising 23.7% year on year to $922.9 billion. Some 56% of assets are allocated to equities, split between ...

Women advisers drop to 21%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... (30%), Synchron (17%), Capstone (24%), Commonwealth Financial Planning (37%), RI Advice (23%) and Consultum (17%) have the highest proportion of women. In terms of actual adviser numbers, AMP Financial Planning (653) leads with the highest number of ...