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Pressure mounts on Cbus in Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... previously denied that allegation. However in its submission Counsel Assisting suggest that Atkin "has a strong self interest in so denying". It has submitted "there are a range of compelling circumstances which make those denials difficult to accept." ...

Regulators put super funds on notice

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has flagged new developments in post-retirement as an area it will be monitoring closely. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) investment conference recently ...

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Treasury reforms, financial innovation and growing demand is driving interest in Australia's hedge fund industry, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association. Currently managing $96.9 ...

MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
The requirement to charge low fees under MySuper has forced one superannuation fund to exit a Principal Global Investments (PGI) strategy that had returned 13% over five years. PGI chief executive in Australia Grant Foster said that the super fund pulled ...

Government should super seed low income earners

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... years old. Known as "Super Seed" the payment would help bridge the superannuation gender gap as well as leverage compound interest. "The proposal turns on its head the idea of just making catch up contributions later on and instead make contributions ...

ASIC would "rarely" ban products

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... with regulation" and that "we don't need any new laws." But, he continued, the industry and regulators "have a common interest in seeing innovation that fosters investor and financial consumer trust and confidence - innovation that helps investors, but ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... expensive relative to others as it first appears. She added other ways to save money include custody, FX trading, in interest rates and cash accounts on custodians. Rainmaker recently completed its 2015 Rainmaker super fund fee survey and found the average ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Net establishments of new self-managed super funds have steadily declined since mid-2014, according to ATO and APRA data. Specifically, net establishments have fallen by 24% to 22,822 in the 12 months to June 2015. While this can be partly attributed ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... has been waiting for managed accounts to take off since 2001. The managedaccounts.com.au chief executive has watched interest grow across the investment spectrum, from large institutions to retail accumulators, but he's never seen any definitive industry-wide ...

Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... they can manage investments better themselves. He added that a lot of super performance figures were retrospective where interest rates are prospective and people were attracted to that idea.