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Super trustee bill before the Senate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... If passed the bill will require all Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated super funds to have a minimum of one third independent directors on their respective boards. The proposal has received mixed industry responses. The Australian ...

ClearView launches first SMA service

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
... competitive and easier to explain to clients. Administration fees are now capped for accounts more than $1 million and the minimum monthly fee has been removed. "We understand that advisers prefer a range of different investment approaches and may even ...

The power of saying no to difficult advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... we transitioned our business. We got very specialised, so I work specifically with legal professionals. We instituted a minimum $10,000 fee and now we have more revenue than we ever had before and more referrals than we can feasibly handle, just by focusing ...

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... AXA IM's first impact investing fund targets healthcare, financial inclusions and environment. It invests in funds of a minimum size of $25 million, but they often average $50 million. One of the investments is in Singapore-based Quadria, a fund that ...

Prime Value launches SIV fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... Value Emerging Opportunities Fund follows recent changes to the SIV regulations, which now require investors to allocate a minimum of $1.5 million to ASX-listed emerging company funds, and a minimum $500,000 in venture capital funds. The fund will follow ...

Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... older ages Introducing a mechanism to increase the pension age as life expectancy continues to increase Increasing the minimum access age to receive benefits from private pension plans so that access to retirement benefits is restricted to no more than ...

SG Hiscock finds value far from ASX big caps

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... discontinue using the product or service. "These types of companies often have pricing power, and can increase their prices with minimum negative impact on the customer base." The strategy sees opportunities in sectors such as cloud IT and satellite ...

Governance Institute pulls support for super bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... said. The Institute expressed then "a strong show of support for reforms to improve superannuation governance, including a minimum one-third independent directors and an independent chair." At the time, it said that "the proposals will improve board ...

Australian Catholic Super launches retirement income product

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... Superannuation RetireSmart "bucket" strategy works by investing a member's account balance into two buckets: cash and growth. A minimum of two years' worth of pension payments are placed into the cash bucket, providing a secure short term income. The ...

More must be done to cut fees: FSC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... is good, but it could be better." The research by Rice Warner for the FSC demonstrates that larger super funds with a minimum fund size of $5 billion would result in an average of 0.95% in feesA ?A 0.15% less than the current average of 1.10%. Bragg ...