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Advisers key to encourage charitable giving

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... people who seek advice to write their will are not more likely to include a charitable bequest than others. However, the research mentioned a study in the UK that demonstrated that when advisers mentioned that leaving a gift to charity was an option ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... alpha. "Members are the ones who take the risk and they ought to get their fair share of returns." She cited Trialogue research that showed an average fund with an MER of about 90 basis points had 65 of those in investment management costs. "That's where ...

Super law changes "political suicide"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... sword, with any changes to the system now considered "political suicide," according to former AMP senior executive - research and technical Rob Thomas. Speaking at the Financial Standard Technical Services Forum on September 1 in Sydney, Thomas said ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... to whatever manager best-suits their portfolio needs. "Our use of unitised structures remains the same," he says. "We research funds and managers, but we don't have 14 analysts like some of the stockbroking houses determining whether you buy BHP or sell ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Shots fired! Shots fired! Yes Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as ...

Tempo gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... its first rating from Lonsec for its Global Equity Fund. Lonsec cited Tempo's strategy as "heavily grounded in academic research, and Lonsec considers the investment team to have a strong pedigree in translating academic research into investable portfolios." ...

SuperFriend launches mental illness framework

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and National Mental Health Commission. It was developed in response to 2014 SuperFriend research, which showed that mental illness and suicide-related issues make up 10% of all insurance claims within super. "Psychological ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Australia's most handsomely paid chief executives received eight figure salaries in 2014, the latest research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) revealed. The ACSI 'CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies' report A looked at the earnings ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... based researcher. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan spoke broadly about pension fund business models and said he was surprised by the ambitions ...

Retirement income is not one-size-fits-all

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... in super savings are encouraged to part-annuitise their retirement balance. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said the research showed one scenario where a retiree was about $70,000 better off after 25 years in retirement by choosing an account-based pension. ...