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FICAP Rockstar winners announced

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
The winners of the 2015 Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) Who Wants to be a Rockstar competition were crowned last night, with BlackRock's Adam Hess given the highest honour for his fiery performance of The Killers' Mr Brightside. Hess ...

Managers to battle for super pool offshore

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Competition among fund managers for the ever growing pool of retirement funds is set to move away from Australia and into international markets. Tougher conditions locally and the limited capacity of the market to absorb the $1.9 trillion in superannuation ...

CMSF closes with focus on policy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... equal representative nature and while also allowing for board development." He added: "We do not subscribe to the pure competition theory that any MySuper product should be allowed to be a default option for an employer." During the conference, Energy ...

FEATURE: How ETFs are changing adviser asset allocation thinking

LAURA MILLAN, ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... respectively in 2014. While these categories will continue to grow, Bradbury expects more boutique products to emerge as competition increases in the sector and investors seek more nuanced solutions. "The evolution generally starts off with ETFs being ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... bumper year in financial services policy with super front and centre. Reforms to improve superannuation governance, competition and transparency appear to be the first cab off the rank. These reforms look likely to occur in a busy environment for the ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... (http://www.wsj.com/articles/ecb-faces-struggle-in-sourcing-enough-bonds-for-qe-1424868462) Add the ECB's demand to "Competition for purchases may come from banks requiring bonds to meet regulatory rules, pension funds that need to match their liabilities ...

Big four banks missing out on customer wealth management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... industry funds. "With superannuation being the major component of wealth management, the big banks are facing tough competition from the trend to self-managed super, industry funds and other specialist providers," Morris said. "With funds in superannuation ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... performance index holding steady on 8.3% during October to December masks something more subtle - the return of performance competition into superannuation and the strong debut of life stage investing. SelectingSuper's December performance figures released ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... Consumers need the protection of a default superannuation fund safety net despite calls for deregulation to increase competition, Industry Super Australia (ISA) said. The body representing some industry super funds argued that efforts to deploy competitive ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... such as the Government's new Pension Wise scheme or regulated advice. Christopher Woolard, director of strategy and competition at the FCA said, "The decisions consumers make about what to do with their pension pot are important and in some instances ...