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Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Mums and dads have increasingly chosen to invest their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
The Australian share market has risen with the major miners leading gains despite another fall in iron ore prices. The market has recovered from Thursday's losses with investors shrugging off a dip in iron ore prices overnight, CommSec market analyst ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
The financial services industry welcomed the government's decision not to touch superannuation in the 2015 Budget, but the PM's promise that "there will be no changes to super" in the future has brought the tax review into question. "There will be no ...

Morphic added to Macquarie platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Morphic Asset Management's Global Opportunities Fund (MGOF) has been added to the Macquarie Wrap Super and Pension Platform. The MGOF was already available on the Macquarie Wrap Investment service, BT wrap and Netwealth, and the fund manager said it ...

Advice not just compliance: Centrepoint

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Centrepoint Alliance chief executive John de Zwart has called out advisers who focus on regulatory compliance without considering client satisfaction. He argued that licensees and practices are obsessed with "[their] own processes rather than the needs ...

Superannuation tax concessions unsustainable: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said Labor's superannuation policy might not be universally popular but it was a better alternative to the coalition's decision to leave super alone. In a recent radio interview with ABC, Bowen labeled current superannuation ...

Statewide hands COO acting chief executive role

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Statewide Super has made longstanding chief operating officer, Nicolle Rantanen, its acting chief executive officer. Rantanen began the role in May following the departure of John O'Flaherty, who led the fund for five years and oversaw significant growth ...

Bill Gross donates $867m to charity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Bond king Bill Gross has jumped straight into the list of the world's most generous philanthropists after giving US$700 million ($867 million) to charity. Gross told Bloomberg Television that he is planning to donate the remaining of his fortune, estimated ...

Spring FG acquires robo-advice company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Independent licensee Spring FG has acquired Digifi Group, a company specialising in 'robo-advice'. Digifi's websites SharecafA(C) and Sharescene have more than 70,000 members and attract more than 7,000 unique visitors each day. The acquisition more ...

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has launched 17 exchange traded bond units (XTBs) that will provide investors with exposure to returns from individual corporate bonds issued by the top 50 ASX listed companies. The investment opportunity ...