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Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The government's reforms to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) could be disallowed by Nationals' Senator John Williams after he staged a parliamentary confrontation against Finance Minister and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann. The Senate Standing ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
An impending Standard & Poor's downgrade of bank hybrids will drive the value of these investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following solid gains on Wall Street as a strong housing report helped equities regain ground. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,402. Locally ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Industry fund-sponsored organisation SuperFriend has today released detailed quantitative research on mental illness-related claims through group insurance, a project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research ...

Trilogy Funds makes $9m property investment

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Property fund manager Trilogy Funds will buy an $8.95 million commercial property in Melbourne's north-west. 271-279 Robinsons Road in Ravenhall was constructed in 2011 by Pellicano Group as part of their northwest Orbis Business Park. The three-level ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Advice industry self-regulation is not an appropriate model to increase professionalism in the financial advice industry, as associations have "an inevitable conflict of interest," the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has argued. "Industry ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Cbus and the New Zealand Super Fund have joined a number of international investors backing Mercer's new study of the investment risks and returns under climate change scenarios. Mercer said the study would be "framed by several plausible climate scenarios ...

AustralianSuper to charge for over-the-phone advice

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
AustralianSuper has told members it will soon start charging for over-the-phone advice relating to transition to retirement strategies. In a letter to members, the $75 billion fund said that from 1 November this year, "a fee of $295 may be charged ...

Cutting edge data tool finds super members most likely to defect

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The latest generation of data analytics software can tell super fund bosses who is most likely to leave their fund, and what to do to make them stay. Dr David Black is head of advanced analytics at Empirics. With over 10 years of academic experience ...

BetaShares launches US equity ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
BetaShares has launched a new US equity income focused exchange traded fund (ETF). The BetaShares S&P 500 Yield Maximiser Fund (managed fund) will trade under the ASX code UMAX and aims to provide investors with exposure to S&P 500 companies, while ...