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Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
"UK inflation climbs to highest in a year" (Irish Times). "UK inflation nudges up to 12-month high" (Financial Times). "UK inflation gathers steam in January" (Business Spectator). In a world where low and/or declining prices have become the norm, headlines ...

App lets Australians invest pocket change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A new app released in Australia will allow users to round up daily purchases and invest the "change" into a diversified exchange-traded fund portfolio. Acorns, created by father-son business Acorns Grow in 2012, was released in the US in 2014 and has ...

HLB Mann Judd launches estate planning

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... beneficiary to check if they are making a claim on the super - is probably a big enough admin task for them at the moment let alone trying to capture all the other elements and assets that an individual might have. You really do need specialists in that ...

Bell Direct to deliver "smarter robo-advice"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Online broker Bell Direct has partnered with Lincoln Indicators to give clients access to the Stock Doctor research platform. As a result, Bell Direct clients using Stock Doctor to research equities (and how they fit into investment objectives) can ...

Vanguard notches fourth successive year of record inflows

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Vanguard, the world's largest provider of index funds, has notched up its fourth successive year of record inflows with US$256 billion ($372 billion) coming through its doors in 2015. The figure represents a 5.3% increase on the previous year's inflows. ...

OmniLife adds industry fund risk products

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Omnium-operated risk research tool OmniLife has added industry fund risk insurance products, giving advisers further comparative insight into the super risk market. Although retail and industry fund risk products are operated differently, Omnium said ...

Aussie large-cap active managers endure massive outflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... generally refrained from lowering ongoing fund charges. "Still, eating into profit margins isn't palatable at the best of times, let alone when assets are stagnant or declining," Wong said. "Active managers can instead try to differentiate themselves ...

Three days to lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... having talked the talk and prepared the citizens of planet Earth, there remains a 20% chance that it could abort lift-off. Let's not worry that the Fed's favoured inflation gauge - the core PCE price index - remained below target at 1.3% in October ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has penned a letter to Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer supporting several amendments to the superannuation trustee governance bill. ASFA has told O'Dwyer it would support the federal government ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... oh why do you think the PBOC has cut interest rates six times since November last year and is expected to do some more? But let's not stop at China, there's Europe -- where the ECB is expected to throw whatever else it could find in its kitchen after ...