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3.5 million Aussies give financial advice to friends and family: Roy Morgan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... "likely to play a major role in financial decisions." The survey shows Citibank and ME Bank - owned by industry superannuation funds - to have the highest proportion of customers who are sought out by friends and family for financial advice, with both ...

Poor equities performance sees MySuper suffer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... Super, Media Super, NGS Super, Statewide Super and Hostplus. Life cycle products saw a median return of 1%, with the top five funds comprising QSuper, First State, Local Government Super, TASPLAN, and Virgin Money. The top five personal products for ...

AAT upholds AFSL rejection

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Watson had applied for an AFSL license to provide advice for self-managed superannuation funds and other financial products in June 2016. However, in October 2017, ASIC ruled Watson failed to provide relevant information ...

Sunsuper expands advice business

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... as Sunsuper's Melbourne business development manager. Sunsuper is one of Australia's largest super and retirement funds, serving 1.3 million members and holding $58 billion in funds under management.

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... arrangements would remain and "the government believes that current taxation arrangements for members of taxed and untaxed funds are broadly equitable." "We have been ignored and rejected by a succession of governments time and time again; a common message ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... wide universe of companies. It has an office in Melbourne and provides industry data and intelligence on superannuation funds, Aussie insurers In Australia, managed funds and equities. It's latest research charted the inflows for TAL, CommInsure ...

ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... member of the board audit committee and the board risk and compliance committee. In the past he has served as a QIC senior funds manager and head of private equity for Victorian Funds Management. He is also a former chairman of the Australian Private ...

Superannuation reforms splits opinion: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... was the best-in-show shortlist of MySuper products that incited some industry backlash. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy said the top 10 list has the potential to create an oligopoly in default super and ...

Minimum SMSF balance misleading: SuperConcepts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission's proposed minimum balance for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) is "way off", according to SuperConcepts. Despite it being half the balance the commission recommended in its interim report, SuperConcepts believes ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... The result came despite volatile markets putting pressure on the Australian ETF market, which saw a reduction in total ETF funds under management in the fourth quarter of 2018. However, ETFs still grew over the 12-month period. The Australian ETF market ...