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Industry fund pilots cancer wellness program

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... treatment back into a normal routine. When medical support suddenly ceases, the person recovering from cancer often struggles to return to a normal life." He added many are left with fatigue, "chemo fog", deconditioning, and sometimes depression and ...

Morningstar downgrades Franklin Templeton parent rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... early 2017, the firm has grown through multiple acquisitions over the years." Morningstar added: "Franklin's recent struggles highlight, albeit to an extreme, the challenges facing active management. Between mid-2014 and early 2016, the firm's AUM fell ...

Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... with wealth management waning The wealth management industry has been embroiled in one scandal after another and as it struggles to meet both shareholder and customer demands, a number of big players are re-evaluating their commitment to wealth management. ...

VicSuper highlights retirement struggles

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
More than 50% of Australians aged over 55 feel financially underprepared for retirement and 23% feel completely out of depth when thinking about retirement finances. The findings come from a study commissioned by VicSuper, also detailing that two in ...

Templeton director returns to the fold

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... opportunity exists for investors who recognise that there has only been one period in TGG's history rivalling recent struggles: the tech, media and telco bubble of the late 90s." The fund has reported an 8.6% return p.a. over the past three years, 11.3% ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
Strip infrastructure and private equity out of superannuation funds' alternatives investments and the asset class struggles to deliver its current growth-like returns. This is one of the key pieces of analysis provided by Frontier Advisors at its annual ...

Bank love affair with wealth management waning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
The wealth management industry has been embroiled in one scandal after another and as it struggles to meet both shareholder and customer demands, a number of big players are re-evaluating their commitment to wealth management. Unlike many international ...

AFA makes three senior appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... manager, financial operations, having held chief operating officer positions at CTPartners, Johnson Partners and Heidrick & Struggles. Fox continued, saying that Windle "brings with him a high level of financial management experience and business operations ...

Senate to investigate white-collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... market manipulation," Whish-Wilson said. "It's not just at the top end of white-collar crime penalties that Australia struggles to keep pace with other nations. ASIC doesn't have the array of administrative penalties available that other jurisdictions ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... higher, adding 138.30 points to 24,636.28, while Shanghai ended down 1.13 per cent, or 42.04 points, at 3,663.73 as it struggles to recover from a recent plunge. WELLINGTON - The S&P/NZX 50 index rose 29.1 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 5,920.95.