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Asset test rules hurting retirement savings: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The SMSF Association is voicing its concerns over changes to the assets test rules for the Age Pension, that is discouraging retirement savings and has other "detrimental" behavioural effects one year on. SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney ...

UBS tops Australasian adviser tables for mergers and acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Latest data from Mergermarket reveals Australia continued its run as the most targeted country for mergers and acquisitions throughout Asia Pacific in 2017. The market intelligence agency said the country's inbound deal count (176) and dollar value ...

Super fund ESG specialist joins PRI committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
An ESG investment specialist at a $41 billion industry superannuation fund recently joined one of the top advisory committees at the Principles for Responsible Investment. Prior to Christmas the United Nations-supported PRI announced its newest members ...

Industry funds reign supreme: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Industry superannuation funds are set to continue their dominance of the sector, with not-for-profit funds already accounting for about two-thirds of Australia's total superannuation assets. Insights from Rainmaker Information show retail super funds ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Giving his 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum preview, Principal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur says it's hard to find any near-term threats to the global economy. Speaking to Financial Standard, Baur said the world economy ...

Eaton Vance subsidiary appoints COO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
A subsidiary of Eaton Vance specialising in responsible investing is welcoming a new chief operating officer. Anne L. Richardson joins Calvert Research and Management from Cambridge Associates, where she was managing director and chief operating officer ...

RNY wind-up sought as ASIC blocks Aurora move

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
RNY Australia Management (RAML), currently acting as responsible entity for the RNY Property Trust (RNY), will seek to wind up RNY in light of a decision against prospective RE Aurora Funds Management. ASIC did not grant a variation to Aurora's licence ...

J.P. Morgan winds up global equities fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
J.P. Morgan has requested the responsible entity of one of its global equity products to terminate the fund and distribute net proceeds to unitholders. The JPMorgan Global Income Fund was launched in December 2013 and, based on Rainmaker data, had about ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
There's certainly no denying that the bulls ruled Wall Street over the course of 2017 with its record breaking feat splattered all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq ...

First Aussie fixed income mandate for global manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
A global asset manager with Swiss heritage landed its first Australian fixed income mandate recently as a wealth management firm announced the latest additions to its multi-manager suite. Vontobel Asset Management will run an emerging markets debt mandate ...