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Final farewell for industry association

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
After more than 96 years as a recognised industry association, members of the Superannuated Commonwealth Officers of Australia have come together for the last time. About 100 of the industry body's remaining members attended its final meeting - a special ...

Challenger funds management chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
The chief executive of Challenger's funds management business announced he will depart later this year. Ian Saines joined Challenger in March 2015 and helped funds under management grow to more than $80 billion for two divisions: Challenger Investment ...

Wills and BDBN raise adviser interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
The complexities of binding death benefit nominations and wills piqued the interest of many at the quarterly Challenger and Financial Standard Technical Services Forum. Australian Unity head of technical services Yvonne Chu raised the question of what ...

New leadership at SuperConcepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
SuperConcepts has expanded its leadership team with the creation of two new general manager roles. Annette Sheppard will become general manager of growth and Yasmin Omar-Meer has been appointed general manager of strategy, product and price. Sheppard's ...

Downgrade follows fund manager YouTube apology

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
Morningstar has downgraded a hedge fund facing liquidity issues. The move follows a sombre apology to investors from the fund manager delivered via YouTube. Neil Woodford issued a YouTube apology to investors whose money is currently frozen in Woodford ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
Crude oil prices have dropped, turning this year's bull market into a bear market. Oil prices rallied nearly 50% from January to April this year on the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy ...

Industry fund names chief risk officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
A $6.6 billion industry fund has welcomed a new chief risk officer from ESSSuper. LUCRF Super named Alison Anthony as chief risk officer and company secretary. Anthony was previously the general manager of governance and product at ESSSuper for more ...

PYSP puts SMSFs at risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
As July 1 approaches, some self-managed superannuation fund members are scrambling to ensure life insurance policies held through an APRA-regulated fund aren't suddenly cancelled. With the Government's Protecting Your Super Package about to kick in ...

Advisers not prepared for exam: AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
Association of Financial Advisers general manager of policy and professionalism Phil Anderson has labelled the 600 advisers sitting the first exam as "brave", fearing they are underprepared. Anderson believes the advisers taking the exam in the first ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
"Anything that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the ...