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Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... ASFA is pleased to see it being considered as part of the tax discussion paper process. By analysing distribution and magnitude of high superannuation account balances, the ASFA report found there are more than 200,000 people who have superannuation ...

Instos turn increasingly to real assets

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... assets can provide this match, while also delivering attractive yields in the current environment. The growing number and magnitude of recent real asset allocations clearly represents more than short-term, tactical decisions. We believe real estate ...

ASFA outlines spending needs of nonagenarians

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... Vamos said. "The ASFA Retirement Standard for Older Retirees will give governments a better picture of the spending magnitude and behaviour of older retirees. This will allow them to better analyse the impact that policy changes or price fluctuations ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... over the probability of a break up in the single currency area and, at the time, the looming recession there and the magnitude as to which this is transmitted to the rest of the world." Yup, the same scare - except perhaps, without the euro break up ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
Uh-oh, looks like the Wall Street seesaw has just been whipsawed. Wall Street's action - and their presumed causes -- over the past three days are summed up in Bloomberg's headlines over the past three days: S&P 500 Falls to Nine-Week Low on Global ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Raise your hands all ye who thinks that their economy is growing above and beyond potential, that there's no slack in their nations' respective labour markets or that their labour force is not "under-utilised", and that it's time... to normalise interest ...

Perennial Aussie equities fund receives Zenith rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... companies and uses equity derivatives and cash to dynamically protect the portfolio through market cycles, reducing the magnitude of significant negative returns as they occur. "The stark reality we all faced during the GFC was that a 50% fall in our ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... well, they did say that this is only the beginning. The same way "they" said it was when the S&P dropped around the same magnitude this year: January 24 - S&P 500 down by 2.1% because of emerging market "crisis" because of Fed taper and China slowdown. ...

ASX mFunds FUM already ahead of ETFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... in FUM. This amount already being equivalent to one half the amount of money held in investment wraps illustrates the magnitude of the strategic challenge this new sector is throwing down to traditionally distributed retail products. According to Rainmaker's ...

Safer sex? Women take less risk than men

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... to be the main risk taker in just one in six couples. While this male/female difference is a global phenomenon, its magnitude varies across regions. In Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, the male/female difference is more or less the ...