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C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... before. Still low, but rising nonetheless. But with Wall Street again proving the saying that "records are meant to be broken" overnight, the Fed could afford to do just that were it not for the still missing pick-up in inflation. This is also because ...

Super guarantee must be 12pct: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... "While women can look forward to retiring with more superannuation than their mothers and grandmothers, the ongoing issue of broken employment patterns and a troubling persistent gender pay gap means we cannot afford to be complacent," he said. Women ...

Vanguard aims to defuse the active debate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... manages more than US$1 trillion in active money in addition to its considerable index portfolio, said the decision can be broken down into a series of questions. This process can be summed up as initially asking whether an investor has the resources ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... after the US Treasury released the government's tax reform plan on 27 September, entitled "Unified Framework for Fixing our Broken Tax Code." It put Trump's earlier promises into paper and is based on Trump's "four principles for tax reform: First, make ...

Super FUM up 10pct to $2.3tn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... into lower cost MySuper products. Within MySuper, lifecycle investments grew even faster as they jumped 34% and have now broken through the $200 billion barrier. Lifecycle investments make up 34% of all MySuper assets. Fund members have at the same time ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... enough. But how strong does the labour market need to be to get inflation lifting? At 4.3% in May, America's jobless rate has broken below the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) as measured by both Oxford Economics (4.5%) the OECD ...

Females dominating non-concessional contributions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... as to why this is the case but that it is likely reflective of a number of explanations. "Women are more likely to have broken working lives so need to catch up on contributions toward the end of their careers. There may also be some household issues ...

IRESS readies industry for super reforms

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... exemptions for transition to retirement pensions and a new system of 'catch-up' concessional contributions to assist those with broken work patterns. The reforms will take effect nationally from July 1 2017.

Help wanted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... since the early 1990s. Generally, job ads lead gains in employment by three-months. But this relationship appears to have broken down since the start of 2016. While the annual growth in job ads have remained largely buoyant through all of last year - ...

Super changes spark engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... - the total value of assets administered on Class Super across 127,806 SMSFs $1.26 million - the average SMSF balance (broken down to $664,000 per SMSF member)