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Wealth transfer poses advice business risk

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... intergenerational wealth transfer in history. New GlobalData research shows while millionaires represent just 0.2% of the world's population, they hold over 30% of the world's investable assets. On top of that, 35% of the world's millionaires are over ...

RARE fund receives Lonsec tick

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Infrastructure Income Fund (formerly the RARE Yield Fund), which is designed to help meet the income needs of an ageing population, received the rating as a result of the Lonsec's strong conviction that the fund can generate risk adjusted returns in ...

IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An Australian institutional investment manager is partnering with Korea-based Samsung Asset Management to form a global infrastructure debt fund. The US$480 million fund will be jointly managed by IFM Investors and Samsung Asset Management to invest ...

Elder financial abuse requires education

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... requires increased education for trustees and advisers, not stricter legislation. The dangers emerging from an ageing population and cognitive decline makes elderly superannuation fund members more vulnerable to financial risk, but the SMSFA's head of ...

Australian Unity appoints trustee GM

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... recognised that there is a growing need for trustee services amongst middle income Australians, particularly as the population ages," Sakellaris said. "An important part of my role will be to ensure we continue to build a high calibre team who can provide ...

Women-led super funds outperform, so why so few leaders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... said, however, this out-performance is not the core issue. The low ratio of women in leadership positions is. Half the population is female, half of superannuation membership is female yet less than 40% of fund executives are women, 28% of fund trustees ...

Global advice group becomes investment bank

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... which is based on good governance, pro-business policies, legal expertise and an educated, English and French-speaking population," Green said. He added that given deVere's extensive experience in global financial advice, the group was "best-placed to ...

Australian Unity enters trustee services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... objective for Australian Unity. There is an increasing need for estate planning and trustee-type services as the Australian population ages and personal circumstances become more complex, for instance with blended families, diseases of ageing such as ...

Netwealth dominating platform sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... user needs, while netwealth has begun pre-populating application forms with data from XPLAN. HUB24 also enabled pre-population and integrated with a licensee's internal software, andplans to do the same with other planning software providers. "Having ...

CommInsure cleared of systemic problems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... performed is sufficient to have reasonably identified any matters that may systemically affect the declined claims population." The review and investigation process took more than 150 people 10 months to complete, involving an electronic review of more ...