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AB announces $140m super mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... degree of protection from this uncertainty by investing in a portfolio of traditional fixed-income assets with relatively little duration, or exposure to interest-rate risk, but which has at the same time the potential for returns through a modest exposure ...

ANZ rings in insurance updates

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... depending on how that particular factor has changed. This is a really positive message for the customers. It's something a little different to the other [offerings] in the market." Apart from these changes ANZ also confirmed it will launch its new Grow ...

ASIC orders HSBC remediation plan for "deficient" advice

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... 2013, affected 464 out of 557 clients in HSBC's review, and was primarily given in "instances where advisers had obtained little to no information about clients' relevant personal circumstances," according to ASIC. As a result of the EU, HSBC will implement ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... 3.0%-3.5%, tighter but hardly different from its February projection of 2.8%-3.8%. Japan machine tool orders There's still little good news out of Japan. Latest stats show machine tool orders dropped by 26.4% in the year to April following a 21.2% decline ...

Retired mothers need financial help

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... paid workers. "What we'd encourage individuals who are supporting their parents financially in retirement to do is put a little extra aside in their own superannuation account, to help end this cycle of dependency." About 62% of REST's two million members ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... of how companies behave. Companies cannot operate in isolation like they could do 20 to 30 years ago whereby there was little knowledge of operations on the ground." Young said recent research by SLI found the younger you were the more likely you were ...

Budget delivers blow to aged care

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... in expenditure reflects growth in demand and these cuts may create a funding gap that the transitional funding will do little to address," Cowling said. In an attempt to offset the cuts, a $53.3 million in transitional assistance and a $137m funding ...

ISA calls out pre-Budget arguments on contribution caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... group relies heavily on the LISC to keep their super savings moving upward. With their income taxed at 19% or less and little capacity to make extra contributions, they effectively receive little or no tax concession on super contributions," Whiteley ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... see it become the number one shareholder in about 40 Nikkei 225 companies by the end of 2017. The BoJ has been left with little choice but to invest in stocks having already pursued quantitative easing via bond purchases and also negative interest rates. ...

Paradigm appoints head of operations

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... close to my heart. "In previous roles I've established risk insurance business units from the ground up. At Paradigm it's a little different as there is already a well-established risk insurance business, which is an excellent platform to build upon." ...