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Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Commonwealth Officers' Association, established in 1923, had 50,000 members at its peak. But with dwindling membership and not enough revenues, SCOA's board has decided to call time on the body. In its pre-Budget submission the group confirmed ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Shareholder Services (ISS), a company speciaising in responsible investment and governance solutions. The transaction's value was not revealed. Strategic Insight tracks 13.5 million individual data points for a wide universe of companies. It has an office ...

ClearView director dismissed of charges

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... fund manager of the Pacific Balanced Fund (PBF) by National Superannuation Fund (NASFUND)." "The charge against Mr Brown has not been proven and his employer, NASFUND, is fully supporting Mr Brown, believes he has not breached any laws and has stated ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... billion. Vanguard head of ETF capital markets Damien Sherman said the trend to move towards international equities ETFs is not a surprise, and added ETFs continued to grow in the face of difficult conditions. "Continuing the trend of recent years, investors ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... smacks of the same optimism ex-Fed chairman Ben Bernanke blurted out about a couple of years before the GFC hit: "...we do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system" because "past ...

Finalists unveiled for FS Investment Leadership Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... manage client assets -- looking at six-year performance and five different risk factors. The purpose is to give clients who may not have the database and skillset to vet out the best investment managers in the industry. "Our issue was how to incorporate ...

PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... members, it offers little or no value to some, it said. This is because it is "ill-suited" to their needs or that members are not able to claim against the policy. As part of the proposed inquiry, the Commission wants to analyse where group insurance ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... good long-term performance is associated with low fees, good governance, and sufficient scale," the report reads. "That is not to say that judgment will not be required - and thus an expert panel is much better placed to identify likely future outperformers ...

APRA, ASIC welcome Productivity Commission's superannuation report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The regulators overseeing financial services in Australia have welcomed the Productivity Commission's recommendations to grant them additional powers. After they were blasted in the Productivity Commission's final report into the efficiency and competitiveness ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... after year outperformed all bank-owned funds, simply because they are run to enhance the retirement savings of their members, not the share price of the big banks," the ACTU said. It added the performance of not-for-profit industry funds was a testament ...