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Morningstar secures $337bn portfolio disclosure commitment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
Morningstar Australasia has received voluntary commitment from more than half of its client base to deliver full investment portfolio holdings disclosure ahead of regulatory requirements. At a Morningstar Australasia investment strategy day in Melbourne ...

Fund managers' transparency poor: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
Lack of transparency in Australia's funds management industry not only lags global standards, it could also be deteriorating retirement savings, according to a new study. Commissioned by Monash University's Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) ...

Industry funds must renew aged care investment focus

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
One of the top national lobby groups for older Australians has called for more involvement from industry superannuation funds in the aged care sector. At a roundtable hosted by Industry Super Australia and over 50s consumer group Council on the Ageing ...

Traditional funds too apathetic to super start-ups

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... such as Spaceship, Zuper and Grow Super. SuperEd is a digital financial advice provider. The Mercer 2020 Super Fund Executive Report released in June suggested a sense of apathy among super fund executives, as 13% of those surveyed were concerned about ...

Cbus chief executive wins FEAL award

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
Cbus chief executive officer David Atkin is the winner of this years' fund executive of the year award as presented by the Fund Executive Association Limited. Atkin was recognised as an industry executive who has made an outstanding contribution to ...

BTIM appoints industry fund executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
The current head of investment strategy at First State Super will become BT Investment Management's first head of multi asset investments. Michael Blayney will join BTIM in the newly created role at the end of August, bringing with him 20 years' experience ...

Super trustees on notice over fund disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (SIS Act). Transparency information (TI) requires super trustees to disclose fund executive remuneration, governance and other information - for example: trustee directors' remuneration for the last two ...

NAB Financial Planning appoints super fund executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
A former senior leader at First State Super and IOOF is leading NAB Financial Planning's client services and paraplanning capabilities. Rebecca Harrison will be responsible for the delivery of client services operations across Australia for advisers ...

Super funds not future ready: Mercer

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... ownership of what their funds can control to ensure long-term growth and sustainability. Discussing Mercer's 2020 Super Fund Executive Report - Change or be Changed, Mercer managing director and chief executive Ben Walsh said the report exposes the high ...

Women-led super funds outperform, so why so few leaders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
Superannuation funds with higher than average levels of female strategic leadership outperforming other funds forces the question of why the proportion of women in superannuation leadership roles remains so low. Research by Rainmaker into the relative ...