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Funds management

The industry super fund owned firm is proposing a new way to finance infrastructure construction to help “kick-start” the economy. ...

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Financial planning

A key parliamentary committee has received more evidence about how industry superannuation funds are delivering financial advice and what it cost. ...

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Superannuation

Cbus has today announced its first direct offshore infrastructure investment, joining global pension fund partners in investing a stake in the United Kingdom ports group,...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has defended vertical integration and strongly noted that industry funds have gone down the path of vertical integration via asset management, finan...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted it has never specifically investigated advice provided by industry superannuation funds....

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Financial planning

ASIC has been asked within a Parliamentary Committee hearing whether it will scrutinise financial advice provided by industry funds in the same way it scrutinised that pr...

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People & Products

Superannuation fund legalsuper has chosen an experienced lawyer as its new chair succeeding the long-serving David Miles....

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Superannuation

The trade union movement has closed ranks to defend industry funds from the Government’s ‘choice’ legislation seeking to change the default funds regime....

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Editorial

What is the difference between a ‘rebate’ and a ‘commission’ and is a different standard being applied to the ‘risk sharing rebates’ paid to industry funds by insurers?...

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Superannuation

Industry fund, First Super has sought risk advice from equity managers on investing in franchise model companies following wage scandals....

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Policy & Regulation

The industry funds have attacked the banks on cross-selling as they seek to deal with a Productivity Commission issues paper canvassing a baseline approach of no defaults...

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Funds management

Industry fund, Equip, has announced it was piloting a robo advice service based on Clover.com.au’s investment service....

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Outsider

Outsider skimmed through Money Management’s Salary Survey to find some interesting results about education levels between planners in banks and their peers in the super s...

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Outsider

Outsider notes that after looking closely at Chant West data, perhaps ISA’s David Whiteley’s call for an inquiry into why industry funds outperformed their retail counter...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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