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Macquarie quietly rolls out low-cost platform menu

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
Macquarie recently launched a new low-cost investment menu to its Wrap platform, designed to help financial advisers provide high-quality investment options to clients with simpler investment needs. Macquarie's multi-year effort to reset its platform ...

Fidelity backs personality tests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
Fidelity has revealed plans to roll out client personality tests to financial advisers. The international fund manager released its Value of Advice report this week, with research from CoreData, which included insights into the personality types of ...

AMP cuts super fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
AMP is reducing investment and administration fees across its suite of superannuation products, including removing the Stronger Super fee it introduced in 2013 to finance the implementation of the reforms. The fee cuts will be applied to MySuper, choice ...

AMP remediation processes questionable

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
AMP has responded to reports it is refunding fees charged to members into new AMP superannuation accounts opened without customers' knowledge or consent. Following a report by the ABC, AMP has confirmed it is depositing refunds owed to former customers ...

Aussie share funds boast stellar 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
Managed funds focusing on the Aussie share market have boasted a stellar 2019, with more than 10 funds returning more than 30% for the year before fees. The new research comes out of global consulting firm Mercer, who released its latest Australian ...

RBA crushes hopes of Libra launch

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia will not allow tech giant Facebook to launch its cryptocurrency Libra in Australia until all risks and regulatory requirements have been mitigated. And even if these regulatory requirements were met there wouldn't be ...

China's growth to slow: PIMCO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
PIMCO is forecasting a slowdown in China's GDP growth in 2020 as tensions between the Asian nation and the United States continue into the New Year. The company's global economic advisor, Joachim Fels, and chief investment officer global fixed income ...

Super fund rejigs investment option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
A $2.3 billion government superannuation fund is making some key changes to its high growth investment option. Effective February 2020, AvSuper will change the return objective of its high growth option. Currently the objective of the option is to achieve ...

Consumer data right for open banking delayed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The ACCC has delayed the launch of consumer data right (CDR) for the banking sector to July 2020, postponing key components of the reform that would have allowed the kick-off of open banking in Australia by February next year. Consumers will now be ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The past year has served as the beginning of the superannuation industry's transformation. Yes, recent years have seen nothing but reform after reform, but 2019 has been something different entirely. The Productivity Commission and Royal Commission ...