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Mercer chooses new super insurance partner

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016

Global dividends down 4pc

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
Global dividends fell to $281.7 billion in Q3 2016, down 4% year on year and the weakest performance since Q2 2015. The weak performance puts pressure on Australian investors who are heavily dependent on dividends for their equity income and, according ...

Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... of Tinder sex bots. On the former, he noted that nearly every poll predicting the 2016 election outcome "got it wrong" except one: the LA Times/USC Daybreak poll. "They predicted Trump getting elected and got a lot of flak for being an outlier. They ...

Impact investing driving advice growth

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
Demand for impact investing is expected to rapidly increase as a growing number of retail and institutional investors search for investments that provide both monetary and social returns. In the last five years there have been 96 reported impact investments ...

AustralianSuper enhances fund transparency

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Australia's largest superannuation fund has improved its transparency with members by launching an interactive tool it hopes will be commonplace across the industry. AustralianSuper recently launched a project that displays all of its investments across ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Be careful what you wish for... No Virginia, except for Putin, the majority of world leaders didn't wish for Trump. So far away from Good Friday, they would have crucified US presidential "candidate" Donald Trump (if that was legal). In mid-January ...

The $25 trillion decision US voters have to make

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... writing anything so close to the US presidential election. [Once the results are announced], everything will be settled. Except, of course, that it won't be." "For whatever the result, the markets will move on to a different type of thinking about what ...

Infocus celebrates success

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
Infocus Group has celebrated the successes of leading businesses providing exceptional financial advice across the Infocus and Patron Australian Financial Services Licensees. Announced at the group's annual conference in Singapore, a total of 18 awards ...

Zurich makes senior hire from NAB

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
Zurich has appointed an investments account and territory manager for NSW and ACT. Bevan Green joins Zurich from NAB Wealth, where he was manager, practice development. Prior to that, he was a business development manager at MLC, and held the same role ...

Investors must look to dividend yield over growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
Exposure to higher dividend yield stocks can be beneficial to retiring investors seeking income, even at the expense of dividend growth, according to AXA Investment Managers. New research from the global asset manager discredits common misunderstandings ...