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SSGA launches ESG-heavy strategy for Aussie instos

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... dedicated fund follows on from SSGA divesting tobacco and controversial weapons shares held in its State Street Global Index Plus Trust in September 2017, something SSGA said was in response to demand from its Australian investors. The move saw the Fund ...

Super fund awards $150 million fixed income mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... fees, an excess return of 1.75%. It will be used by Sunsuper as an additional source of alpha to its internally managed cash plus strategy. The $50 billion industry fund believes the strategy will benefit members within its balanced, retirement and conservative ...

One third of Aussies struggling financially

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... experience, or how much they earn," she said. She added that ANZ will use the results to develop initiatives such as its Saver Plus and MoneyMinded programs, designed to support people with their financial capability and develop savings habits." The ...

AI comes to SMSF administration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... Fund 360 providing a level of confidence on where transactions have been allocated in the ledger based on the 250 million plus transactions in the Simple Fund 360 database. It is truly amazing technology." The latest development in the SMSF administration ...

Insto licensees still bleeding talent

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... proportion of advisers associated with non-aligned licensees increased to 36%. The big-six advice groups - that is, the big four plus IOOF and AMP - saw their adviser numbers fall by 6% to 9205. Of that cohort, only IOOF saw an increase in its adviser ...

Advisers no longer standing still on social media

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... He added 59% of Australians access social media every day or most days with more than one-third checking social media five plus times per day. And this is why better social media strategies make sense, according to Loneragan. He adds that advisers are ...

CBA advice failures unacceptable: Comyn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... pay a community benefit of $3 million as part of the EU. The advice firms' total compensation bill now sits at $88 million plus interest, which is being paid to 31,500 customers affected between July 2007 and June 2015. ASIC found the advice firms failed ...

Super Plus switches to SMSF fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
Brisbane-based SMSF administrator Super Plus is migrating its clients to Mclowd, which provides its core software for free. The administrator has entered into a five-year agreement with Mclowd - a fintech with about $1 billion in super assets under ...

New trust lowers cost for retail access to corporate loan market

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... a higher price." In its first half-year results, released in February, MXT met its IPO target return of the RBA cash rate plus 3.25% net of fees and consistently traded above net asset value. At the time, Lockhart said: "In today's volatile equities ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... Australia with the highest W-index scores in the Rainmaker study were HESTA, Care Super, AvSuper, VicSuper, REI Super, Club Plus Super, MTAA Super, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, Tasplan and Energy Super. Rainmaker conceded its study may be ...