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Statewide chair collects AIST Trustee of the Year

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... collected the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) Trustee of the Year. Presented the award at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds in Adelaide, AIST president Angela Emslie said it was great recognition in Brown's home city. ...

New insurance industry guidance on its way

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... provides all the information required to fully and better understand their fund's insurance business. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds yesterday, Industry Funds Forum (IFF) project officer Francis Cox said a new insurance guidance ...

Adequacy benchmark to help define super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... high savings numbers. "What sort of industry tells its customers that they have failed?" Garcia said. Opening the 2016 Conference of Major Superannuation Funds in Adelaide today, Garcia told more than 1000 delegates the industry needs to do much better ...

Australia and UK to shape retirement landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... role in driving future ingenuity and innovation for retirement markets across the world. On the eve of attending the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Adelaide, J.P. Morgan managing director and global pensions executive Benjie Fraser ...

QSuper takes industry leap with retirement incomes

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
... through their post-retirement phase was a key priority of the fund. QSuper data scientist Helen Johnson told the ASFA conference in November that about 30% of the fund's members, over a one year period, are converting into a pension account. At the time ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... upcoming "liang hui" (two meetings) in Beijing becomes particularly important. China People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will open on the 3rd of March and the more important, National People's Congress (NPC) will start on the 5th and lasts ...

Consumer (un)confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... current conditions suggests the economy will continue to expand at a moderate pace in the near-term." This is how the Conference Board summed up the result of its consumer confidence survey for February. The headline index dropped to a reading of 92.2 ...

Government help needed to remove innovation obstacles

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... biggest barriers, a panel of high profile professional investors has said. In a plenary session at the My Platform Rules conference on the Gold Coast this week, Trimantium Capital managing director Phillip Kingston and IOOF chief investment officer Steve ...

Renewed calls to remove super from political cycle

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... in confidence in the system. That was the shared view of a panel of policy experts at the SMSF Association National Conference in Adelaide that included the industry body's head of policy Jordan George, former Labor Cabinet Minister Craig Emerson and ...

Behavioural coaching is the best route to 'adviser alpha'

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... Addressing an audience of financial planning and accounting professionals at the SMSF Association National Adviser Conference, Johnson said that over the last 30 years, the Australian share market has experience 11 bear markets. "They usually occur on ...