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NAS launches ESG reporting service

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... to assess and monitor a range of ESG metrics. The service provides the firm's asset servicing clients including superannuation funds with deeper insights into their portfolios, regardless of whether they are managed internally or by external managers. ...

Automated retirement product gains recognition

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
The Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund's automated retirement income solution has been recognised as an innovative product by the country's business community. Australian Catholic Super's RetireSmart account-based pension was a winner ...

Actuaries want super dashboard overhaul

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Actuaries are weighing in on the debate around superannuation fund transparency, labeling current dashboards unsound and needing an overhaul. The Actuaries Institute says its view is based around a review of the MySuper dashboard structure. It lists ...

NZSF gets top UN sustainability ratings

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... becoming much more widely adopted and sophisticated both in New Zealand and globally," Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation chief investment officer Matt Whineray said. "We're therefore very pleased to remain in the top tier of UNPRI signatories internationally. ...

Fiducian appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... the chief financial officer of Ensurance. Prior to that, he was the deputy chief executive of Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund. At the same fund, he was also chief operating officer, chief finance officer, complaints officer and ...

SMSF trustees increasing use of planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... 2007 according to new research jointly released by Vanguard and Investment Trends. The firms' annual self-managed superannuation fund report, which collated responses from more than 3500 SMSF trustees and 570 financial planners, also found the number ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... chief executive Michael Clancy believes it is within most people's means to better understand and engage with their superannuation. It is this mantra that will help shape the corporate super fund. Every time Michael Clancy steps off a Qantas flight he ...

Non-super investments increasing sophisticated strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... believes there are opportunities for wealth management professionals to capitalise on personal investments outside of superannuation and in a market not always readily recognised. In its Personal Investments Market Projections 2015 report Rice Warner ...

Kaplan launches adviser diagnostic tool

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... knowledge areas: investments and markets, social security, financial strategies, taxation, legislation and compliance, superannuation and retirement income investments and life insurance risk management. Kaplan Professional head of faculty Jennifer Hornsey ...

SMSF trustee fined $40K for SIS breaches

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... contraventions were deliberate and involved a "complete departure from the respondent's obligations as a trustee of a superannuation fund." In handing down its findings, the court took into account Rodriguez's cooperation with ATO, the fact that he has ...