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What gets measured, gets done

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... assessed based on "innovation", or whether the fund is doing anything groundbreaking by implementing their strategy. Fellow panelist Marc Levy, principal at Right Lane Consulting, drew on a mixed-method research they did based on the response from 25 ...

Super is not for winning votes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... political lever, industry experts warned. In a session about how to build consumer confidence in the superannuation system, panelist Michael Dwyer, chief executive of First State Super, drew a resounding applause when he criticised the ill-conceived ...

Ripoll to headline AFA conference

Members of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will get a chance to discuss the Ripoll Inquiry with the man behind the inquiry himself, after Bernie Ripoll, chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, agreed ...

Adviser education bar too low

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... young hopefuls looking to enter the industry, said a panel of advisers. Brad Fox, a partner at Nixon Fox & Wills and a panelist at the AFA National Roadshow in Sydney on Wednesday, said the entire industry - and adviser clients - would strongly benefit ...

Strike equities now: JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... been underweight but we're moving back towards long term benchmarks," said John Coombe, head of consulting at JANA and a panelist at today's Fidelity Australian Equities Summit. Coombe acknowledged it was impossible to pinpoint the turning point of when ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The prices of local shares, property and commodities will fall further in the coming months before the government's stimulus package kicks in and takes the market out of the doldrums, said the panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking ...

Infrastructure still key to returns

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Industry super funds' appetite for unlisted infrastructure assets will not wane despite the financial crisis because the sector's investment nature aligns closely with the funds' long term goals, said David Whiteley from the Industry Super Network. ...

Industry questions dual role of CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
Should a superannuation fund's chief executive sit on the fund's Trustee Board? Industry experts are divided on whether wearing both hats create potential conflicts of interest. The panelists at the Fund Executives Association Limited's (FEAL) national ...

The lighter side of super: HESTA

... literacy initiative of HESTA Super. HESTA has signed up comedian Fiona O'Loughlin, who is a regular Spicks and Specks panelist, to feature in a series of online videos demystifying super. To date, the fund has launched five short films featuring Alice ...

Frontier finds gold in sub-prime muck

... months as a "window of buying opportunity" of quality stocks unfairly tainted by the sub-prime crisis. Speaking as a panelist at today's Fidelity Australian Equities Summit held in Sydney, Frontier's managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker said that ...