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Lonsec launches ETF model portfolios for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... these portfolios are relatively easy to manage, reducing administration time for financial advisers and enabling them to focus more time on achieving their clients' investment objectives." The strategic portfolios are backed by Lonsec research and each ...

Perpetual appoints fixed income analyst from Deutsche Bank

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Perpetual Investments has appointed a former Deutsche Bank director as the new analyst to its credit and fixed income team. Anne Moal joins Perpetual from the global markets division of Deutsche Bank, where she spent ten years, most recently as director ...

FoFA amendments will reduce quality of advice: lawyer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
The government's proposal to amend the best interest duty section of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms are "inconsistent with the nature of a best interests duty" and will "reduce the overall quality of financial advice", according to legal ...

Retiree 4pct drawdown limits too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... The report also refers the Netherlands, where an excessively high drawdown rate is known as "increasing the risk of ruin". Focus on the drawdown rate intensified following the onset of the GFC in 2008-09 when retiree interest groups successful lobbied ...

Media Super to launch MDI option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... member engagement, he said. "After my arrival at Media Super in March 2013 I commissioned extensive research (including focus groups) into member needs and in particular the reason why some high-balance members are (like in every other fund) transferring ...

Towers Watson grows Australian team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Towers Watson has made three additions to its Australian investments team, a move it says was driven by increased demand. Two of the appointments were asset consultants. Felicity Walsh will join the Sydney office as an investment consultant, while Alek ...

Robeco fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Robeco Emerging Conservative Equity Fund has received a 'Recommended' rating from Lonsec. The Fund is an active, long only, quantitative emerging-markets equities strategy. It invests in listed equities in global emerging markets and the strategy ...

Advice industry under-prepared for younger client base

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The professional advice industry is facing a seismic demographic shift that it is ill-prepared for, according to the chief executive of Pershing Advisor Solutions, Mark Tibergien. "The industry is fundamentally built on baby boomers but there is a demographic ...

ClearView launches online health reward system

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
ClearView Wealth has launched a program that gives discounts on insurance policies to clients who prove that they take care of their health. The ClearView online version of the initiative was launched only a day after a major insurance group announced ...

Westpac appoints deputy CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
Westpac Group has created the role of deputy chief executive officer to address strategic issues such as the Financial System Inquiry and regulatory change. The current chief financial officer Phil Coffey will start in the new role of deputy chief executive ...