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RC sting felt in finance pay packets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
Perceptor has revealed the state of financial services salaries and bonuses in its 2019/2020 Market Trends and Salary Review. The boutique recruiter pointed to the outcomes of the Royal Commission as a leading factor in the changes. "There is no doubt ...

MySuper not the only problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has hit back at newly launched consumer group Super Consumers Australia after it unleashed an attack on MySuper products yesterday. AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck moved to play down the significance ...

Technology coming for advice jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Rice Warner says technology is likely to forever alter how people expect to receive and pay for retirement advice. New insights from the research house suggest robo-advice is not the only channel through which the advice industry will be changed by ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
Grattan's report arguing Aussies retire with enough and government should scrap increasing the superannuation guarantee to 12% was "broadly consistent" with Treasury's own modelling, staff emails show. In November, Grattan said most workers ...

Super expert re-joins Mercer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
A former Mercer executive has returned to the firm after a brief stint leading superannuation consulting at Rice Warner. Tim Jenkins has been appointed partner in Mercer's institutional wealth division, just over six years after he left behind a ...

La Trobe Financial expands executive team

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Blackstone portfolio company La Trobe Financial recently expanded its executive team with the appointment of three senior banking veterans. With assets under management of $9 billion, alternative asset manager La Trobe Financial announced the appointment ...

Challenger appoints funds management boss

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
Challenger has appointed a new chief executive for funds management after Ian Saines announced his intention to retire from the role in June. The job is going to Nick Hamilton, who has led Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners since ...

More climate risk action needed: SSGA

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
State Street Global Advisors said it has prioritised a deeper examination of ESG integration across its investment strategies as it released its Annual Stewardship Report for 2019. While environmental, social, and governance considerations has always ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
Research house Rice Warner has openly questioned whether superannuation funds should begin resetting the return expectations of members. With difficult economic headwinds prevailing, Rice Warner is concerned superannuation funds have made a rod for ...

Intra-fund advice must improve: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
Superannuation funds have failed to solve the problems around access to financial advice, and both members and the funds themselves will suffer until they do, according to Rice Warner. The research house has struck the superannuation industry for failing ...