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HESTA and SVA launch impact investment fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... market, to convert words into meaningful action," HESTA chief investment officer Robert Fowler said. "HESTA has a specific focus on impact investments in the health and community services sectors, which represent the core of our membership base, and ...

Perpetual wins RE mandate with seven funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... "However, we are also seeing more and more local investment manager's transition to an independent RE, freeing up them to focus on managing their strategies and growing their funds under management."

Retirement income is not one-size-fits-all

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... pension. He said this additional capital could be used to cover aged care or health costs. "There has been a lot of market focus on annuities recently but this report really shows that the case for annuities is weak for the typical Australian retiree ...

Government must not mandate products for super members: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia said the AIST supports more flexibility around retirement product development but the federal government should not be mandating particular products for super members. Opening ...

FSC, FPA support ASIC user-pay model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... "consistently expanding" mandate. "We have enough laws in place already to ensure consumers are protected. ASIC needs to focus on its role as a corporate regulator to enforce these laws and it needs to be properly resourced to do its job," she said. ...

Australian Unity acquires four practices

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has acquired four new advice practices. This brings the total number of financial planning practices under the Australian Unity licence to 101, and the total number of advisers to 183. Although the four new ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
The Future Fund has reported a 15.4% return for the year to 30 June 2015 and has dramatically increased its cash exposure to 19.5% as it expects higher volatility and lower global growth. The fund's cash exposure has increased from 11.2% to 19.5% in ...

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... wanted." The report added that the existing investment platforms that will dominate the space in the future will be those that focus on customer personalisation technology, using "predictive analytics" to "develop a deeply intimate knowledge of each ...

APRA trustee reforms, definition of independence yet to be finalised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
APRA has released a discussion paper detailing the government's proposals for more independent trustees on super fund boards while conceding the definition of independence is yet to be finalised. The proposed changes to trustee operations have divided ...

HUB24 sees 3000% profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... at the same time as delivering valuable improvements to our platform," said HUB24 managing director Andrew Alcock. "Our focus on innovating for advisers and their clients to provide the very best platform technology is validated by our rapid growth and ...