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Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Platinum Asset Management, together with the Neilson Foundation, has launched a new scholarship for financial planning undergraduates, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced. The scholarships will be offered through five Australian universities ...

Women's retirement anxiety is increasing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... rating dropped to 6.22. Indeed as older women get more nervous about retirement, men seem to be becoming more relaxed. The study also found that women in the 50 plus age bracket were more than 60% more likely to opt for conservative investment strategies ...

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... this concern over the importance of non-investment non-taxation issues. The ABC has reported the results of a scientific study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr Agnieszka Tymula of the University of Sydney ...

Sovereign wealth funds up alternatives exposure in 2012

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... equity and hedge funds, according to a recent Invesco survey. The fund manager's annual Global Sovereign Asset Management Study revealed that 69% of the sovereign wealth funds surveyed reported increased exposure to international real estate over the ...

Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... impact, and the accuracy of these recommendations. "We find no evidence that consultants' recommendations add value," the study concluded. However, researchers suggested that institutional investors used asset consultants to provide "a 'narrative' to ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... complexity and the size of the SMSF. At the same time, annual full administration costs would total $2,898 to $8,033. The study determined that SMSFs with less than $100,000 were not competitive in comparison to APRA regulated funds, while SMSFs with ...

Financial bosses top narcissism study

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013

Wealthy parents fear kids can't handle family fortune

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... ultra-wealthy and many family office and private wealth advisers have specialists in managing inter-generational wealth. The study, part of U.S. Trust's Insights on Wealth and Worth series, found that very few parents believe their kids should know about ...

ISN criticises "irresponsible" CPA super report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... summary, the report's author, Simon Kelly, adjunct professor at the University of Canberra, wrote: "[I]n the context of this study, which examined superannuation and household savings, the verdict is that accumulated superannuation savings minus household ...

Australia outstrips US and UK in online trading

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... population. The figure compares to a 2.4% adoption rate in the US and just 1.4% in the UK. Of the six countries included in the study, only Singapore had a higher adoption rate with 4.7% of the population placing trades over the period. The number of ...