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Kinetic Super hires retirement specialist as CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Kinetic Super has hired a superannuation industry and retirement specialist as its chief executive from May 16. Andrew Barnett joins from JANA Investment Advisers where he was general manager retirement strategy for seven months. Before that appointment ...

Three Aus funds awarded AAA climate rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Three Australian superannuation funds have received AAA ratings for their climate change risk management from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project's (AODP) 2016 benchmark index, The Global Climate 500 Index. Local Government Super and Australian Super ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Uh-oh! Don't know if you noticed but most equity markets around the world finished in the red heading into and up to the end of April. The raison d'Aatre, the source of angst, the trigger for the sell orders all pointed to the disappointment over the ...

APRA counts life insurance losses

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
APRA has released its submission to the Senate Economics Committee on the inquiry into the scrutiny of financial advice - life insurance, claiming that the profitability of the sector is under strain. The submission argued that weak profitability has ...

ISA calls out pre-Budget arguments on contribution caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Industry Super Australia has slammed pre-Budget arguments that call for voluntary contribution caps to remain at current levels and allow Australians to make superannuation "catch-up" payments. Australian Tax Office (ATO) data analysed by ISA shows ...

Fiducian acquires three further firms

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Fiducian Group has acquired three separate financial planning businesses in the Perth catchment area, for total consideration of $1.2 million, to be funded by cash. The acquisitions reflect Fiducian's strategy to expand its financial planning network ...

Asia Funds Passport signed off

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O'Dwyer, has signed the Asia Region Funds Passport's Memorandum of Co-operation (MoC) with Japan, Korea and New Zealand. The Passport will facilitate the cross border offering of eligible collective ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Australia export and import prices Prices are dropping like flies. Following on from the disappointingly weak consumer price inflation report for the March quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest estimates on Australian ...

Narev defends CommInsure record, wrote to five customers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
CBA chief executive Ian Narev has defended his company's life insurance arm in a letter to Senator Chris Ketter, noting he wrote to five affected customers recently. Referencing CBA's submission to the Senate Economics References Committee's Scrutiny ...

Fintechs to drive Australia's economy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... others in Australia that the ecosystem is here, we've just got to put bits and pieces together." H2 Ventures founding partner Ben Heap said there were some amazing success stories and he did "not see any risk at all that this is a passing fad." He said ...