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Link completes AustralianSuper transition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
More than two million AustralianSuper members have been successfully transitioned by Link Group onto its aaspire administration platform. Ahead of schedule and under budget, the transition is Link's ninth in the past 14 months and brings the total of ...

Equities on the nose in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
Investors moving in and out of equities-based managed funds are showing less confidence in the asset class as volatile markets continue alongside sustained political uncertainty. The Equity Preference Index, maintained by Colonial First State Global ...

ASIC bans life insurance adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... objectives. ASIC also found he submitted an insurance application without his client's knowledge or consent. "Any advice to switch existing life insurance and superannuation products must be in the client's best interest," ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell ...

CommInsure loses $4.5bn fund partner

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
CommInsure has lost another insurance contract, this time with a $4.5 billion industry superannuation fund. Following a competitive tender, transport and logistics industry fund TWUSUPER ended its partnership with CommInsure and selected TAL as its ...

Super slow to embrace advice opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
While super funds are increasingly investing in digital engagement, only a minority are employing robo-advice services, according to IQ Group research. The IQ Group Digital Engagement Study 2016, based on research of the top 50 retail, industry and ...

Bank inquiry recommends breaking big four oligopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics' first report in its review of the four major banks has recommended breaking the big four's "oligopoly" and introducing competition into the sector. The report said this could be achieved ...

CFS introduces same day RoA functionality

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... and apply it to many clients, while detailing a RoA for each and leave the transactions pending before submitting a bulk switch. The changes are then automatically and consistently applied. "Efficient solutions are at the core of enabling advisers to ...

Former Sentinel adviser slapped with ban

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
ASIC has banned a financial adviser and former authorised representation of Sentinel Private Wealth from providing financial services for five years. Stephen Beckton, who was a representative of Sentinel from September 2013 to October 2015, was banned ...

Retirement fears herald advice opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... to stick to their fund throughout lifestage events." While switching activity has dropped 4% on last year, intentions to switch remain at a comparable level, with 5% of members still considering leaving their current fund; more than a third citing high ...

MySuper transition costing retail members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... members have paid between $800 million and $1.8 billion in additional fees over the four year period funds were given to switch their default members into MySuper products; impacts that could "multiply four-fold" if the retail MySuper product they're ...