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Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... adequate retirement savings. "Recent research found almost three quarters of older workers across Australia are willing to stay in the workforce for longer and 61% cited financial security as the major reason older workers continue to keep working," ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
You know the old saying: there's nothing like selling monkey hand-puppets door-to-door to turn you off working in sales forever. David Hallifax was doing odd jobs with a friend to support himself while backpacking around Australia. He'd crossed the ...

Countplus sells back stake in advice firms

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... $3.08 million, which Countplus will re-deploy to fund future business growth. "Under a shared-equity model, our member firms stay independent, retain branding and keep entrepreneurial control, while ensuring their ability to grow," Countplus chief executive ...

Poor digital experience set to hurt revenue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... "Brands need a much deeper understanding of their digital-experience performance if they are to keep their customers and stay competitive." Respondents said that to improve their digital experience score brands should focus on delivering individual experiences ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a mixed lead from Wall Street where the Dow was dragged lower on a disappointing Procter & Gamble earnings report. At 0754 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Recent high-profile mergers and acquisitions of aligned advisers by independent groups are a sign of a growing trend. In the past three months, former ANZ managing director of advice and distribution Paul Barrett's firm AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... visceral and so dramatic that it creates all these bad behaviours." He said that a key issue is "how do you get people to stay the journey and understand what their money is trying to do." This has become a concern in the current low return environment ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... the month. European managers experienced losses of 1.13% amid uncertainty over Greece's ability to pay its creditors and stay in the Eurozone. Despite losses in these key regions, Japanese and Latin American hedge funds emerged as top performer in June ...

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... you did was more down to how good you were." He handed in his resignation soon after starting that job but was persuaded to stay by then chief executive Ian Martin, who recognised Braga's skills could be put to use elsewhere in the business as a project ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Here we go, here we go, here we go... The dollar-A is back in the news again. For it's fallen below US74Ac at the close of trading last week and early morning exchanging shows the dollar-A is currently holding that level at US US73.71Ac Can't help but ...