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AMP cuts fees for new wholesale fund suite

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... AMP chief executive Craig Meller said: "We've met our targets on reducing costs, driving new revenue from our Advice and SMSF businesses and managing margin compression in wealth management. We've stabilised and reinsured our life insurance business ...

NAB appoints new regional advice GM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... where he was national manager wealth management and national manager practice development. Prior to that, he was a regional SMSF solutions manager at AMP, national manager distribution at BT Financial Group and southern area manager at Asgard Wealth ...

Reskilling: A worthy purpose for super?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... education and retraining, especially as the risk of losing one's job to automation grows. Speaking at the opening session of the SMSF Association's 2018 National Conference this morning in Sydney, La Trobe University pro-vice chancellor Phillip Dolan ...

SMSF Association names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The SMSF Association will welcome a new chairperson at the close of its 2018 National Conference. Replacing former Count Financial managing director Andrew Gale, Professor Deborah Ralston will assume the position. Ralston joined the SMSFA board in July ...

SuperConcepts acquires SMSF administrator

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... administration provider in an attempt to expand its market share. MORE Super joins SuperConcepts' growing network comprising AMP SMSF, Ascend, Cavendish, SuperIQ, superMate and yourSMSF. MORE Super will continue to operate under its own brand name with ...

Defensive bias hurting SMSF performance: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
Lower weightings to growth assets - particularly international equities - in the average SMSF is dragging down its performance relative to default MySuper indices, according to SuperGuard 360 research. In the 12 months to 31 December 2017, the SG360 ...

SMSF administrator creates lead data role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... appointment, Stapleton said she believes it is an exciting time to be joining Heffron given the rapid, ongoing growth of the SMSF industry. "Data is a critical topic in financial services and there are opportunities being created through technological ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
SuperConcepts launched a new document management functionality within its self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) accounting platform, SuperMate. Users can scan or email documents which are then automatically read, categorised and filed via the new ...

AMP considers "all alternatives" in life insurance portfolio review

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... AMP chief executive Craig Meller said: "We've met our targets on reducing costs, driving new revenue from our Advice and SMSF businesses and managing margin compression in wealth management. We've stabilised and reinsured our life insurance business ...

SMSFs and instos driving crypto exchange growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... hedge funds, new bitcoin futures, and the growing mainstream acceptance of bitcoin as an asset have given institutional and SMSF investors a level of comfort they haven't had before," he said. "Our platform was designed to meet the needs of this group ...