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Government help needed to remove innovation obstacles

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
The Government should step in to boost investment in technology and innovation in the financial services sector by offering incentives and removing the biggest barriers, a panel of high profile professional investors has said. In a plenary session at ...

Impact investor calls on super fund VC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
Impact investor Trimantium Capital expects to deploy about $700 million in venture capital by the end of 2016, working with several Australian superannuation funds in the process. Trimantium Capital managing director Phillip Kingston and US-based co-chairman ...

Share market risk returns are a lucky dip: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... range of outcomes over one or two years. But when we push the data out to 20 years, imagine some of the real-world mum and dad outcomes. This paper is trying to understand a different kind of frame for the equity risk premium," Drew said. Drew said the ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
Merry Xmas to you too, signore Draghi Only two days before, most have given up expecting more goodies from "Super 'whatever it takes' Mario". No mas, not after the ECB's Bank Lending Survey showed that QE is doing what's intended to do - ease lending ...

Industry fund encourages members to claim insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... father, David, fell off a ladder and was not able to work for a long time. "Mum just started crying, she was so worried about dad," Pete says, and continues: "Dad wasn't crying. He told mum everything was going to be ok and that someone called Energy ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Active managers targeting mum and dad investors have rushed to launch their funds as listed investment companies (LICs) on the ASX, but a growing number of professional investors think the key to retail is elsewhere. Lazard Asset Management managing ...

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 ...

Advance AM head of strategy steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... Children with Disabilities, the charity he runs with his wife. "I was raised on a tea plantation, and I often visit my Mum and Dad who are buried in the churchyard near there," he said. "During one of those visits I went to my old college, and I saw ...

Embrace client interests or wither on the vine, advisers told

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... was the best course of action for maintaining the long-term health of the industry. "I want my kids to be proud to say their dad is a financial planner like they would a doctor or any other profession. Unfortunately I don't think you can say today that ...

Advisers ask for segmented education standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers have asked that the minimum education standards are not set up following a 'one size fits all' approach, but instead take into account individual advisers' areas of focus. As part of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Female ...