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Budget measures to drive up super costs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
The removal of exit fees and caps on passive fees charged by superannuation funds announced in this year's Budget may have unintended consequences. As per Treasurer Scott Morrison's speech, the Government will introduce a 3% annual cap on passive fees ...

Water risk infiltrates agriculture portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
Water risk is becoming a threat to Australia's $56 billion agriculture industry, forcing producers to modify practices and compelling investors to find new means to de-risk portfolios. Institutional investors' growing interest in agribusiness is a boon ...

Royal Commission must cast net wider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
The next fortnight will see the Royal Commission grill some of Australia's biggest providers of financial advice, albeit with some noticeable absences. During the Commission's second round of hearings the big four banks and AMP will appear, as will ...

Facebook scandal raises ESG concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
It's the data breach that led Edward Snowden to describe Facebook as a surveillance company rebranded as a social media one - and it's now having serious implications on ethical investment strategies. Summarised, Facebook is currently embroiled in multiple ...

MyRetirement products too pricey for super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Delay in progress on the development of MyRetirement (CIPRs) products may not be due to a lack of initiative from superannuation funds but rather reluctance around expenditure. A running point of discussion at the recent Conference of Major Superannuation ...

Super industry wants tougher insurance code

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Industry stakeholders expect 90% of Australia's superannuation funds to sign the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice before March 31, despite its several shortcomings. ANZ, AustralianSuper, MLC, MTAA Super, REST Industry Super and ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Milliman practice leader Wade Matterson thinks the Australian wealth industry should be called to account for creating a raft of "very cheap, generic retirement income products based on a lot of averages." Matterson explained that Milliman analyses ...

Crypto assets rewrite estate planning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
Complex cryptocurrency assets are driving financial advisers to reconsider their clients' digital lives and the impact this has on estate planning. Australian Unity Trustees national manager, estate planning, Anna Hacker describes cryptocurrency as ...

Institutions suffer financial adviser drain

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
About one in 10 financial advisers swapped their licensee in 2016-17 - and 56% of these either stayed in or migrated to non-institutional options, according to Rainmaker research. Another third of those 2100 advisers migrated to institutional licensees ...

Open banking regime to boost advice

DARREN SNYDER, KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
Australia's open banking regime will fundamentally change the way financial advisers interact with consumers but several hurdles must be cleared before any true potential is realised. The expected multi-billion dollar implementation of open banking ...