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No room for complacency: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... of, there's no room for complacency. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference, Rowell said now that higher account balances are skewing towards retirees, super funds need to rethink their benefit design ...

Tracing super back to 1517

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... long bow to draw, McFarlane told delegates at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference that in many ways, the medieval Catholic church wasn't unlike the philosophy underpinning defined benefit schemes: "buy plenary ...

Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... officer Juan Carlos Botero. He told delegates at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference that there was generally less investor understanding of the region than the broader emerging markets universe. However, with ...

The disconnect at the heart of financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... Shead, who discussed the concept of motivation at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference on the Gold Coast. He referred to State Street's research on the idea of "phi," which attempted to delineate a "hidden variable" ...

The pointy end of super regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... key pieces of industry regulation. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference on the Gold Coast, new AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck said she "couldn't have timed her appointment better" given the ...

Markets are stronger than Trump

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... any current geopolitical volatility. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference on the Gold Coast, Hobson said it's dangerous to attempt to orient one's investment decisions around political ephemera - ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... liking bonds. They're joined by billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller. He told his audience at the Sohn Investment Conference to "get out of the stock market". All because Trump (and his promised of huge fiscal spending) happened. A lotta folks ...

CIPR discussion paper by year's end

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... end. Treasury retirement income policy division head, Jenny Wilkinson, told the Australian Superannuation Investment conference in Cairns the discussion paper will outline a CIPR objective and how Treasury believes trustees should implement the new product. ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... assets". They're joined by billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller. He told his audience at the Sohn Investment Conference to "get out of the stock market" and that gold "remains our largest currency allocation." The thing is, we've heard this "sell ...

Robo advice set to fail: Morningstar

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... time, according to Morningstar's head of adviser solutions, Andrew Whelan. Speaking at the 2016 Morningstar Investment Conference in Sydney, Whelan argued that the cost of client acquisition would be too high for pure robo advisers to sustain their businesses ...