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Roll-it Super expands offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
Roll-it Super has partnered with Moneytree to provide customers better control of their finances. Personal finance management app Moneytree will provide API infrastructure to enable Roll-it Super users to aggregate all financial accounts securely. Roll-it ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
It appeared that not only us, Australians all, were celebrating Australia Day on January 26. Our American brethren were too... but for a different reason. The Dow rose by 0.7% on the day (January 25 in New York); the S&P 500 increased 0.8% and the Nasdaq ...

MLC drops wrap and super admin fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
MLC Wealth chief executive Geoff Lloyd is making his biggest call since joining the group five months ago, slashing wrap administration fees to run one of the cheapest platforms in Australia. Additionally, Lloyd is lowering administration fees for the ...

Rest launches low-cost indexed options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Industry superannuation fund Rest has launched new indexed options that do not charge investment fees. Introduced to Rest members in December 2018, the three new indexed investment choices offer Australian shares, overseas shares or a balanced option ...

Ironbark dumps investment manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Ironbark Asset Management is replacing the underlying investment manager of one of its funds, saying its strategy is unlikely to benefit investors over the long term. Ironbark is dropping K2 Advisors as manager of its Global Diversified Alternatives ...

Global asset manager names regional head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
A $684 billion investment manager is welcoming a new head of Asia Pacific. Columbia Threadneedle Investments has promoted Jon Allen to the role, replacing Raymundo Yu. Allen was previously head of distribution in the region, in addition to overseeing ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Pop that cork! Roll out the barrels... the barrels of fun! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest tracking of the labour market shows that we've got jobs and they're multiplying. Total employment grew by a greater-than-expected ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
Parametric have taken the final Productivity Commission report into superannuation to task in its latest research report. According to the firm, the PC missed an opportunity to highlight how super members retiring on after-tax returns are penalised ...

Willis Towers Watson adds cyber specialist

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
Willis Towers Watson appointed a cyber specialist to its Australian arm. Benjamin Di Marco links with Willis Towers Watson from law firm Clyde & Co, where he spent almost four years, eventually establishing the firm's data privacy and cyber insurance ...

ASIC bans former NAB, CBA advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
The corporate regulator permanently banned a former NAB financial adviser, while a former Commonwealth Bank and Synchron adviser was handed a five-year ban. Tai Thanh Nguyen of Adelaide was permanently banned by ASIC for dishonest conduct while licensed ...