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SPECIAL REPORT: Let's talk about managed accounts

... just fine. Fast forward to 2015 - the golden age of all things digital - and investors have swapped pencils for pixels. Blunt investment instruments are a thing of the past and managed accounts, with their laser-like precision as a finance tool, are ...

Perpetual Private hires two analysts

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Perpetual Private has bolstered its investment research team with the appointed two new analysts. David Blunt and Deana Leong have joined the high net worth advice firm's 11 person research team, which covers capital markets research, asset allocation ...

China's deflation limited says ANZ boss

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... has is it doesn't have deregulated interest rates or a fully convertible currency. The economy is managed by a series of blunt instruments which are often difficult to get right." Smith's belief is that further financial reforms in China, like the deregulation ...

Abuse of reporting rules widespread: Medcraft

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... interests. "I frankly think there's a lot of mischief that goes on around the word 'significant,'" Medcraft said. "I'll be blunt, I think there is abuse with people determining when it's significant and when it's not." In his opening remarks Medcraft ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Deflation, rising debt and dampening economic outlooks that are limiting returns expectations are forcing investors to pursue more positive opportunities overseas rather than invest in Australia. Australia is becoming less attractive because even though ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Natasha Fenech has a talent for coming up with strategies to solve problems and a passion for all things precise. She has combined the two during more than 24 years in financial services and, most recently, as AMP self-managed super fund (SMSF) business' ...

Challenger supports default 'MyPension' product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... funds or groups of super funds rather than life companies like Challenger. Challenger essentially argued that GSA was a "blunt instrument" next to lifetime annuities. "Provided the pool is large enough, a GSA can deal with idiosyncratic longevity risk ...

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley said: "the wind-back of the FOFA laws contains a lot of fine-print. The blunt reality is that confidence in the advice industry will continue to sink because financial advisers and bank staff will ...

No clear case for independent trustee quota: Towers Watson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... Gonski and Roger Urwin, both of whom argued that, while independence was a desirable feature, a mandating a quota was too blunt a policy. "There is a matter of trust between super funds and members that can be secured by trustees having an affinity with ...

New ATO powers to decrease SMSF 'delinquency'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... way of penalising 'delinquent trustees', according to Superannuation Australia's Reece Agland. Currently, the ATO has only blunt methods of penalising SMSFs that fail to meet their obligations, the main being to declare the fund non-compliant. But under ...

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Australian Retirement Trust people chief to depart

ELIZABETH FRY
Australian Retirement Trust has confirmed the departure of chief people officer Helen Jackson, who will leave at the end of the financial year.

SSGA loses $2.4bn in two months

KARREN VERGARA
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) suffered $2.4 billion in net outflows over the last two months of 2023, the majority of which hit its Australian and international equities products.

AFCA seeks industry feedback on approaches

ELIZA BAVIN
The financial complaints authority is asking the industry for feedback on how it approaches issues and reaches decisions.

Apex, ACA partner to broaden client services

ANDREW MCKEAN
Apex Group and ACA Group have formed a partnership to offer their clients a wider range of services.

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