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MLC launches digital underwriting platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... year, MLC launched its online platform for superannuation funds called LifeView. LifeView aimed to integrate insurance for super fund trustees, administrators and members. Energy Super began using the platform in November, and an implementation for Vision ...

LGIAsuper appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... our fund's history," Smith said. LGIAsuper commenced its executive search in November. The position opened up after the super fund decided that then chief executive David Todd, who was also chief investment officer concurrently since 2006, would shift ...

ASIC lifts licence conditions on CountPlus subsidiary

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
ASIC has lifted the licence conditions it imposed on a CountPlus subsidiary after it paid $2.5 million in remediation to its clients following a compliance issue in 2015. In September, 2015 ASIC placed additional licence conditions on Total Financial ...

SMSF pool still ripe for financial advice: AMP

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
Self-managed super fund trustees seeking financial advice jumped 6% last year, and they are hungry for further advice, according to AMP Capital research. Sixty-three per cent of SMSF trustees told AMP Capital they would entertain further financial advice ...

Open banking data to become super fund value add: QMV

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... should move to integrate open banking data to improve their services even before open data frameworks officially hit the super industry. Super funds will be the "next logical step" after open banking has been implemented in banking services, utilities ...

Suncorp appoints director

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Suncorp has appointed a fourth female director to its nine-person board. Sylvia Falzon joins Suncorp's board with about 30 years of experience. "We look forward to welcoming her to the Suncorp board and to her contributions particularly around strategy ...

AIST president and board director switch seats

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees president David Smith is leaving his post after a two-year term and a board director has climbed up to the fill the presidency. Catherine Bolger will be AIST's new president. She has been a board director ...

Industry fund invests $100 million in renewable energy

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
One of Australia's largest superannuation funds acquired a $100 million stake in a renewable energy portfolio as part of a co-investment with a Dutch fund. Cbus and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund will hold 80.1% of the investment portfolio known as Bright ...

Flinders fund offers insto rates for retail investors on HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Boutique fund manager Flinders Investment Partners is offering retail investors investment intellectual property (IP) from its Flinders Emerging Companies Fund at about 60% less than retail rates. The slashed retail rates, which are at par with institutional ...

ASIC slaps fines on Spaceship and its trustee

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... website in response to ASIC's infringement notice. At the time when Spaceship's GrowthX option made the misleading claims, the super fund was managing more than $100 million for 6000 members. The financial regulator said it will monitor new entrants ...