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Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... about sequencing risk to the point of the retirement instead of building retirement over 20 or 30 years. I think you should stay in growth assets until you're in your 80s. No funds seem to share that view," Rice said.

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Like most of Australia's major industries, the future prosperity for the financial services sector clearly lies in Asia. Australians constantly talk of the economic opportunity presented by the three billion people that will be in the Asian middle class ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... rate rise. For after the deed is done, speculations would automatically sprout as to whether it's just a one-off - and would stay that way until the rest of the world catches up - or it would quickly be followed by another and another and... The Fed's ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... go to anyone's head. "It'll be hubris that pulls our firm down," the former investment banker asserts. "It's important to stay grounded. There's a reason Warren Buffett never left Omaha. Markets are incredibly humbling. If you start believing in your ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Net establishments of new self-managed super funds have steadily declined since mid-2014, according to ATO and APRA data. Specifically, net establishments have fallen by 24% to 22,822 in the 12 months to June 2015. While this can be partly attributed ...

Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... interests to do so," Sicilia said. "We offer choice as a retention strategy. If [members are] given a choice they might decide to stay. If members leave because we don't give them a choice then they can exercise choice." Sicilia said Choiceplus was also ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
The Future Fund has reported a 15.4% return for the year to 30 June 2015 and has dramatically increased its cash exposure to 19.5% as it expects higher volatility and lower global growth. The fund's cash exposure has increased from 11.2% to 19.5% in ...

Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
Industry Super Australia has launched a series of advertisements putting their case ahead of proposals likely to change the way employer and employee default superannuation funds are selected. Earlier this month federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Governance concerns and member pressure were behind HESTA and NGS Super's decision to divest from Transfield, but a closer look at the company revealed considerable investment risk. "We looked at it and we saw that there are a lot of other companies ...