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Milliman awarded industry fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Milliman's Managed Risk Strategy will be applied to an industry super fund's default MySuper option from 1 July in a move described as a turning point for superannuation. The $4.8 billion Maritime Super awarded Milliman the managed risk mandate that ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Australian institutional investors have not achieved optimal exposure to emerging market debt over the past decade because they have depended on broad global bond strategies which have tended to avoid economies which are unduly perceived as very risky. ...

Bentham hires portfolio manager from Credit Suisse

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Bentham Asset Management has appointed a senior portfolio specialist from Credit Suisse. Daniel Conti joins boutique global credit investment manager having spent the past nine years working in the asset management division of Credit Suisse where he ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
US retail sales A solid and faster than expected increase in US retail spending in May suggests that, perhaps, the Fed was correct in dismissing the highly disappointing May non-farm payrolls report as just "noise". Overall retail sales expanded for ...

Group insurance gets a makeover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
Unprecedented pricing pressure and regulatory forces have led superannuation funds to overhaul group life insurance offerings to better balance competitive premiums with valuable benefits. The overhauls predominantly come on the back of two factors ...

Altius adds industry veteran to advisory committee

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
Fixed interest specialist Altius Asset Management has appointed a senior industry figure to its investment advisory committee. Former Perpetual Investments group executive Michael Gordon, who has also held global chief investment officer roles at Fidelity ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
Australia business confidence "The RBA's cut to interest rates did not help lift business confidence as we had hoped, even as sales activity continues to improve." This was how National Australia Bank's (NAB) chief economist, Alan Oster interpreted ...

Sentiment recovers but cash still king

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
The sentiment of mass affluent Australians has recovered in Q2 2016 amid renewed optimism for the economy and business but remains in negative territory, according to CoreData's latest quarterly Investor Sentiment Report. The uptick in the Investor ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
Giant global banks and consumers alike have found old fashioned solutions to the unusual problem of having to pay institutions to hold their cash deposits - safes, vaults and strongrooms are back in vogue. Japanese hardware stores report demand for ...

ASIC issues first "best interests" duty penalty

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
ASIC has taken its first action against a licensee for breaching the FoFA "best interests" duty showing that the reforms have come of age. NSG Services, formerly National Sterling Group, is licensed to provide personal advice on risk insurance and superannuation ...