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How much do you need to feel financially free?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
NAB has put a dollar figure on the magic number Australians think they need to "significantly improve their lives forever." The average Australian believes they need $828,000 - up 9% over last year - to turn around their life financially. However, the ...

Focus on tax outcomes to drive up member returns: Parametric

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... this isn't necessarily a bad thing, the report says that "fund members have a different perspective." After all, "every dollar that a fund earns after paying its investment fees and costs will go either to the ATO or to the member. If a fund is too risk-averse ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... reality. There'll be no place to hide if this happens. But one thing going for this 'Lucky Country' is that the Australian dollar is once again starting to rise to the occasion, the same thing it did during the Asian financial crisis of 1997/1998 and ...

Managed accounts climb to $57bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... have become the growth engine behind managed accounts, accounting for $8.8 billion of the sector's $17.9 billion annual dollar growth. Potter said there are already about 200 advice licensees authorised to offer MDAs of which IMAP estimates 80 are already ...

Look inside to drive fintech forward: AltFi Summit

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... community to both educate and learn from our peers will be integral to ensuring we maintain strong momentum in this billion-dollar industry in 2018 and well beyond." Keynotes, panellists and sponsors will include alternative lending firms, digital banks ...

Former Provident Capital MD still banned but allowed procedural fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... (PPB Advisory) have estimated that the likely return to debenture holders will be in the range of $0.17 to $0.19 in the dollar. ASIC has taken action against other Provident directors.

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
The Labor Government is proposing to eliminate cash refunds received from excess dividend imputation credits - a "generous" tax loophole that's mostly benefiting self-managed super funds. Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said this "unfair revenue leakage" ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... real yields. He believes a lot of people are assuming US interest rates are on the move upwards, and that a positive US dollar positive is by extension negative for emerging market and local currency debt. But there are flaws. "One is that it's not necessarily ...

FOS submission points finger at advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
Financial advisers account for more than one-third of all serious misconduct issues identified by the Financial Ombudsman Service since early 2012. In a submission to the Royal Commission, FOS attributed 39% of serious misconduct identified in the last ...

NPP to take super by storm: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Research from CBA and KPMG Australia shows the New Payments Platform (NPP) can save the superannuation industry time and millions of dollars each year. Launched in February, the NPP is able to settle transactions in real-time. The time it takes to top ...