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AustralianSuper chief calls for man on the moon moment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... an adequate retirement income. Delivering an oration at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference in Brisbane this morning, Silk asked the industry to consider what "is our man on the moon moment?" Silk believes there is ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... Blundell-Wignall. Opening a global pension summit at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) annual conference in Brisbane this morning, Blundell-Wignall said globally the most important issue being discussed at the moment is solvency. ...

Robo-advice is WALL-E, not Terminator

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... needs of its millions of users with initiatives such as the driverless car. But one of the keynote speakers at the conference, Praescius Financial Consultants adviser Eleni Michael, said that human advisers are able to better understand the needs and ...

AIRA calls for fast-tracked reporting season announcements

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... reporting season and 18 and 20 August in 2015 (see table below). The survey results will be discussed at AIRA's Annual Conference being held at the Westin Hotel, Sydney on Thursday, 26 November.

FPA gives top award to private wealth adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... enjoyable 16 year journey and I am looking forward to a bright future for all of us," he said. Speaking at the FPA Conference in Brisbane, FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said: "I am so pleased we can recognise someone like Chris, who has made such ...

The Fed could get it wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... 2.0%, ey? But even before the actual results came, the Fed already admitted the error of its ways when it called a conference call on 8 October and lowered the target rate by 50 bps to 1.5% and dropped it another half a percent to 1.0% at its scheduled ...

Super fund chief in Paris for climate talks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... Australian and New Zealand institutional investors for sound climate policies at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Paris later this month. Pegan said he expects COP21 (the 21st Conference of Parties) will universally agree on a framework ...

Responsible investment is not just divestment

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... chair (and former director general at the Norwegian Ministry of Finance) Martin Skancke's keynote speech at the 2015 RI Conference in Sydney. He noted the internal conflict in investment management, where short-term returns often clash with the goals ...

Investment under microscope at ASFA conference

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... goals. This will be one of the key themes coming from the 2015 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference next week in Brisbane. Hosting one of the many conference sessions is Aberdeen Asset Management managing director Brett ...

Government releases final risk reforms package

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... the reduction of the clawback period as a positive step. "In an electronic poll held at our recent National Adviser Conference in Cairns our Members indicated almost unanimously that three-year clawback was the greatest issue in the reforms," she noted. ...