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SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... support advisers to achieve the best outcomes for their clients." Open architecture means that the underlying investments are not 100% invested in SPDR ETFs, she said. While an official launch date is yet to be announced, Victor said the Australian-domiciled ...

Super funds can spearhead infrastructure: Expert

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... life insurance route, but for various reasons it hasn't worked out, he said. "But at the end of the day if they're not getting a return from that business - that their shareholders are expecting - then you exit that business." FSC economics and ...

Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... from banks or financial counsellors, which included long wait times for appointments. Some participants commented they did not know what products or services banks offered. Banks could do more by offering interpreters, sending bank staff to visit remote ...

Liberal win stuns, ASX rallies: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
While the Liberal Party's win came as a surprise to the majority of our readership, stock market investors on the other hand were buoyant with the result, Financial Standard 's latest spot poll shows. About 63% of participants said the Morrison ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... Everything comes to him who waits. The data-dependent Fed could afford to sit it out. After all, one-half of its dual mandate is not only half-full it's boiling over. America's unemployment rate was clocked at 3.6% in April - this is the lowest ...

Compulsory super detrimental: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... currently zero. For this statistic, he cites a 2015 Productivity Commission report. "It is far harder to be comfortable if you do not own your home, suggesting that in terms of retirement priorities, homeownership should rank above increasing superannuation ...

British MPs prod own pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... wave technology in the north of Scotland and cases being worked on in Cornwall, Hampshire and the west coast of Wales-are not easily accessible investment vehicles and are not at the scale that a significant pension fund could easily invest in," conservative ...

Perpetual wins trustee mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
An infrastructure fund aiming to invest $500 million over five years has chosen Perpetual Corporate Trust as its custodian and wholesale trustee. Impact Investment Partners' new fund, called the Indigenous Infrastructure Fund (IIF), is a private wholesale ...

Industry funds temper inflows post-Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... industry predicted retail funds would be severely hit in the March 2019 quarter after the Royal Commission. While this was not severe on a quarter-on-quarter basis, on a year-on-year basis retail funds were affected," Rainmaker head of superannuation ...

ASIC names new default super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... regulator has named the superannuation fund its employees will now be defaulted into. From July 1, new employees of ASIC who do not nominate a superannuation fund will be defaulted into AustralianSuper. From that time, ASIC will employ people under the ...