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Super funds act to reassure members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... we aim to provide a consistent, strong-performing fund over the longer term for our members," Stevens said. Rainmaker research shows super funds' overall asset allocation to equities has been less than 50% since 2011. The research also shows there has ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... can't we reduce the cost of banking?", Professor Henry Ergas, from Monash University, said during the presentation of the research report 'Competition in financial services'. Ergas was referring to online dating services that connect married people who ...

CORRECTION: AFA COO joins netwealth

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... operating officer and will now lead netwealth-owned Pathway Licensee Service. He will also provide compliance, technology, research and education services to more than 200 licensees. Anderson will focus on education and infrastructure support for licensees ...

SMAs ideal for low-touch clients

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... solution for clients with lower balances from both a practice management and client outcome perspective, according to research by JBWere. The JBWere/Investment Trends 2015 SMA Report, based on an online survey of 671 financial planners, suggests that ...

Lonsec partners with robo advice provider

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Lonsec Research has partnered with a firm that provides an automated investment service to build model portfolios for its clients. Ignition Wealth will in turn benefit from Lonsec's research in a service that will launch later this year. Lonsec Fiscal ...

Perpetual's acquisition of The Trust Company pays off

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... consultants JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson, Cambridge, Russell and Mercer. The fund has received ratings from the major research houses and managers are working on including it in the major dealer group platforms, approved product platforms and model ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... guarantee (SG) contributions over their working lifetimes and less time to achieve adequate retirement savings. "Recent research found almost three quarters of older workers across Australia are willing to stay in the workforce for longer and 61% cited ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... increasing volatility and stretched equity market valuations," Pillemer said. PanAgora chief investment officer and head of research, equity, George Mussalli, is in Australia this week to meet with the investor, research and investment consulting community. ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Four pillars policy is killing innovation: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... innovation and leading to poor consumer outcomes, the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) found. The research report 'Competition in financial services' acknowledges that the policy made sense prior to the global financial crisis (GFC) ...