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Billionaire investor says markets in late cycle but anything possible

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... firm just started investing the standby fund but it will be "very slowly" as distressed debt bargains dry up in the US. Default rates for US companies have remained below average for nine years, Oaktree found. "In this cycle, there's only been one ...

Perpetual partners with Microsoft

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Perpetual's corporate trust business has launched a data analytics platform for banks and investors to analyse portfolio performance against Australia's $200 billion mortgage market. The Perpetual Business Intelligence Platform includes a newly-launched ...

MetLife scores group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... and evolve with Tasplan and its members. "We understand the value of insurance in superannuation and the importance of default insurance which offers our members value for money protection," he said. "The member experience is critically important to ...

QSuper hunts for new CIO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... two-dimensionally segmented lifecycle investment option which at the policy level, advanced the notion of fiduciary duty in default superannuation, "Pennisi added.

AMP defends charging dead clients

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... "hybrid" category, it said. "It is wrong to say that AMP assumes members are smokers or that it applies a smoker rate by default," AMP said. "Rather, in every scenario, AMP calculates the premiums that it charges to members based on actuarial assessments ...

Royal Commission tables life insurance policy questions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
Numerous policy questions that arose from the life insurance round of the Royal Commission could shake up the direct life insurance segment and potentially ban conflicted remuneration in risk products. The document, released yesterday, questions the ...

Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... find the right superannuation fund for its employees. Examining several aspects such as industry versus retail funds and default versus choice, de Lange said the right option was hard to find as investment options and prices were being managed disproportionately. ...

AMP defaulted members as smokers: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... employer-sponsored super fund but remaining with the super fund provider and moved to a different product. If the member has default life insurance cover, premiums charged would consequently change. Members fall into one of the following categories ...

SMSFs outperforming MySuper: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... SG360 SMSF Reference Index, delivered 10.5% per annum (before fees and tax) in the year to July 2018. Meanwhile the SG360 Default Index, which tracks the performance of default MySuper products, returned 10.2% per annum. Over a three-year period, returns ...

Best-in-show super fund list should be 11: WSSA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... is calling for employer funds to be included in the Productivity Commission's proposed best-in-show list of recommended default superannuation funds. WSSA chief executive Douglas Latto said if the Productivity Commission's recommendations for the employee ...