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Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Frankly I think with a lot of institutional houses, their communications aren't genuine and the advisers know it; they're smart." With its recently launched and highly innovative exchange traded managed fund, the Magellan Global Equities Fund, Douglass ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... and retain the wonderful talent we have in this country, to build leading, scalable technologies and to attract as much smart capital as we can," Dunn said. Among the 41 start-ups, employing about 120 people, are several wealth management operations. ...

Link Group launches digital super card

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Link Group has launched a digital superannuation membership card designed for use on smartphones. The digital card is available to members immediately after they join online and it allows customers to access details of their super fund via their smartphone. ...

Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... superannuation funds to look for new ways to deliver returns at a low cost and some are starting to think the solution might be in smart beta. Head of HSBC Global Asset Management in Australia, Geoffrey Pidgeon, told Financial Standard : "Smart beta ...

Bendigo wealth earnings fall 20pct despite acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... leader of advocacy group GetUp and is Australia's first fossil fuel free superannuation fund. Bendigo's MySuper product Smart Start Super saw funds under management get close to $500 million, up from just under $400 million in December 2014. Bendigo's ...

Zurich identifies investment megatrends

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... include: "The Connected Consumer", which deals with mobile technology, wearable devices, and the on-demand economy; "The Smart Corporate", which address opportunities in the manufacturing sector arising from the 'Internet of Things'; "Demographics and ...

Market set to fall

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to fall after a weak session on Wall Street due to disappointment with earnings reports from the likes of Apple and Microsoft. At 0700 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down two points ...

Passive strategies benefit active managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Investors' shift towards passive and smart beta strategies is a great trend for active managers, according to Standard Life Investments (SLI) head of global equities Mikhail Zverev. "It is very strange to see an active manager saying that we quite like ...

IFAs to benefit from ASIC SME focus

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... accessibility and interactivity for our clients," Tanzer said. He added, "Apart from direct engagement, we have also moved into the smart phone arena by developing and launching ASIC's first dedicated smartphone app for small business." As reported in ...