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CHOICE adds another super voice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
Consumer advocacy group CHOICE will be increasing its superannuation voice during 2016, a direct response to the little industry conversation with a consumer focus during an election year. CHOICE chief executive Alan Kirkland flagged the group's position ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... straight month to a reading of 103.0 in March from 103.9 in February, 105.0 in January and 106.6 in December - provide little encouragement for near-term improvement. The thing is that the cheap US$-supported economic lift could re-ignite speculations ...

State Street SHE Index aimed at capitalising on diversity

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... ETF to a new Donor Advised Fund that will support organisations helping girls to become business leaders in fields with little female representation, such as science, technology, engineering and math.

Super funds encouraged to collect indigenous data

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... Young said one way of addressing the problem would be to have superannuation funds collect member ethnicity data because little is currently known about indigenous and wider ethnic membership bases. "We superannuation funds don't know who is indigenous ...

Little separates Australia's largest custodians

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
Assets under custody between Australia's two largest custodians narrowed significantly during the second half of 2015, with less than $11 billion separating NAB Asset Servicing and J.P. Morgan. NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) recorded a 16.8% decline in total ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... proportion of their herds. Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 in March, just a tad higher than February's final reading of 51.3 and lower ...

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... tally since FICAP began to more than $1.2 million and, more importantly, that all of these funds went to charities that get little or no government support. Speaking at the event, the group's patron Geoff Lloyd, chief executive at Perpetual, and chair ...

No evidence that independence would boost performance: CIFR

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
A Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) study has found little empirical evidence that independence would improve investment performance but suggests that independence is important in maintaining the legitimacy of the superannuation ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
There was very little financial market reaction to China's latest data dump. This could be because the stats only confirmed what markets already know - i.e., China's economy is slowing - or they've discounted the disappointing numbers as due to seasonal ...

Advisers looking for longevity and aged care solutions

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... different levels of value in residential property, but aged care is still something that a lot of people want to spend as little as possible on."