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NGS Super names chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... sharpened its focus on its growth capability ahead of Previtera's official appointment as chief executive. After just three short months as head of a newly formed business development team at NGS Super, Jo Klingberg was appointed chief growth officer. ...

SMSFs continue to fly solo

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... Gopal said. "However, we believe Australians saving for retirement should take a longer-term view and avoid reacting to short term market conditions. It's not unwise to have cash reserves in a portfolio but that should form part of a broader diversified ...

Advisers pivot to protect retirees from inflation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... energy providers or mortgage providers and making additional superannuation contributions. "Retirees should only be making short-term sacrifices to shore up their longer-term lifestyles, not to maximise the wealth they can pass on," Stephan Independent ...

Generation Life rolls out product enhancements

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... that address unique needs," he said. Meanwhile, according to Clarke, other solutions, such as account-based pensions, fall short of addressing the entire spectrum of clients' retirement needs. Most crucial among these needs is ensuring the client's ...

Super funds pursue merger, chief executive chosen

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... Active Super over the past three and a half years," Loades added. "Phil has successfully overseen substantial change in a short period of time. He led the fund through Covid, delivered a successful rebrand to Active Super (from Local Government Super) ...

AI in ESG: Risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

Vanguard fined for defective account statements

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
A US regulator has slapped Vanguard with a fine for issuing false and inaccurate account statements to 8.5 million US customers. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) found that the fund manager overstated the yield and projected annual ...

Australia-UK FTA a boon for local business

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... and non-tariff barriers under the FTA," the federal government said at the time. Some Australian exports, such as wine, short and medium grain rice, sugar, honey, nuts, olive oil and food supplements will enter the UK duty free. Another component of ...

Family offices look to infrastructure for alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... asset class' performance. One chief investment officer of an unnamed family office commented: "There's a lot of equity long/short, which is just equity beta. We pay a lot for it; it hasn't helped us. So, we've spent a lot of time really thinking about ...

Active fund outperformance mostly short-lived: SPIVA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
The S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) Persistence Scorecard has shown a staggering number of Australian actively managed funds failed to outperform over five consecutive years. According to the report, nearly no actively managed equity, A-REIT and fixed ...