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Fee and return disclosures influence retirement choice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
A group of researchers have developed strategies to advance superannuation member engagement with retirement plan choices, particularly focusing on fee and return disclosures. In a working paper recently published by the Centre of Excellence in Population ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... fell by 2.6% in the month of May, down from the preliminary estimate of a 2.3% decline and a reversal of April's 0.5% advance due largely to a 2.6% drop in shipments. The 0.4% increase in (unwanted) inventories over the month suggests further weakness ...

MORE Super switches to Simple Fund 360

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Independent SMSF administrator MORE Super will move the administration of its 5,000 SMSFs from BGL's Simple Fund Desktop to Simple Fund 360. "We compared alternate cloud based SMSF administration solutions and whilst Simple Fund 360 was not the first ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... higher than market expectations for a 1.0% growth and an upgrade from the second estimate's 0.8% expansion and 0.5% in the advance estimate. The third estimate remains lower than the annualised 1.4% growth in the December 2015 quarter but this is now ...

CalPERS increasing emerging manager exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... relatively small investment firms. CalPERS investment director for targeted investment programs, Laurie Weir, said this advance notice will give managers time to prepare their proposals. "Our objective for investing with emerging and transition managers ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... we have seen and are likely to continue to see in financial markets." "The second challenge our analysis identified in advance was the uncertainty that a vote to leave would bring in the coming months and beyond as Britain worked with its European allies ...

New Spring FG SMSF platform opens

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
Spring FG is now taking pre-registrations for its new self-managed super platform, mysuper247, ahead of its full operational launch in July. The platform allows online SMSF establishment, operation and administration as well as access to an array of ...

QSuper public offer move reshapes competitive landscape

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... people line up their providers and they compare them in a public offer situation, the things that they can measure in advance are the costs, so that's something they will need to be cognizant of." Whether QSuper and LGIAsuper present a competitive threat ...

Instos begin litigation against Volkswagen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
A firm with Australian origins is leading the funding for institutional investor litigation against Volkswagen AG, with the first of two suits filed in Germany this week. Bentham Europe, a subsidiary of Australian-founded Bentham Ventures, said global ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
Australia leading index "Leading Index improves but still points to below trend momentum". This is the header of Westpac's media release on the latest update of the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index of Economic Activity. The index tracks future ...