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ISA calls out banks over fee structures

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... Super Australia chief executive, David Whiteley, said services are carried out within the banks' conglomerates with very little or no transparency. "This should be cause for concern for fund members and an area ripe for disclosure reforms by law makers ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... October - after the quarter - the worst three-months since September 2011 - before. Oh yes, yes, yo Virginia, we're happy little vegemites once more with most equity markets recouping in seven days more than half of what they lost in the three months ...

Insurance premiums should be questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... Cain said top life insurers such as AMP, TAL, ClearView and ANZ all posted strong profits during reporting season and have little reason to be crying poor about business being unsustainable. "If life insurers do have a sustainability problem, then the ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... particularly in the US. "Ten per cent of the world's corporate cash is held on Apple's balance sheet. These companies aren't a little corner of the world, and if anything, on any financial matric they tend to be conservatively valued, where other blue-chip ...

Super trustees get a handle on retirement income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... available, the multitude of different risks and preferences that matter to retirees, and complex implementation issues, it is little surprise that no universal solution presents itself," Callil said. "While it is tempting to rely on existing solutions ...

Super executive leaves for Mozambique

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... super last. In Mozambique, the average person is not expected to make preservation age, and with the employment rate just a little over 10% even if they did have a super regime like Australia, there would be very little savings," Grindley said in a post ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... of the particular fund". The most disappointing aspect to silly comments like this and from Frydenberg is they show how little some people learned from last year's hysterical campaign against the ANU Investment Fund over its $16 million divestment from ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... correlation with core inflation give credence to arguments that US inflation would remain below the Fed's target for a little while still - and this, even before the Fed lifts and before factoring in weak/weakening global growth and commodity prices. ...

Zurich launches planner client survey tool

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... for advisers to reconnect, and potentially reassess the cover, of their C and D clients, who in the past have received little to no ongoing contact at all."

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... cultural perspective." "Of course," he adds, "new ideas take a while to gain momentum anyway, and while the markets have had a little bit of volatility, they've really been pretty quiet. If we saw some substantial movement, you might see people saying ...