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Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... three-month period. Now why would more confident households save more? G. Thank goodness for government spending for had it not been for the 1.7% increase in its consumption and 2.9% in public investment, contributing 0.5 pps to growth - and the statistical ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... leadership roles that are held by women - board chairs, chief executives, trustee directors or senior managers. The study analysed not-for-profit super funds because these funds have trustee boards which directly oversee the product offerings and have ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Milliman practice leader Wade Matterson thinks the Australian wealth industry should be called to account for creating a raft of "very cheap, generic retirement income products based on a lot of averages." Matterson explained that Milliman analyses ...

Morningstar fuels fund ratings with AI

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... ratings - gold, silver, bronze, neutral and negative - and going forward ETFs and funds analysed will receive one rating and not both, Morningstar said. Analyst ratings are assigned to about 1800 open-end and ETFs. With Quantitative Rating, this remit ...

Beware downsizer downsides

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... allowable for over-65s from 1 July 2018, wealthdigital technical manager Rob Lavery said he is concerned many advisers are not across the traps of the strategy which, if implemented appropriately, could provide significant value. "There are some clients ...

AMP head of retail sales departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
AMP's head of retail sales is departing following a restructure of the sales team last year. Stephen Craig joined AMP in 2008 as head of retail sales and marketing; he then became acting director, contemporary wealth management, head of goals-based ...

Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Life insurance products sold directly to consumers are gaining prevalence over an area historically dominated by financial advisers and dealer groups, Strategic Insight's latest statistics show. The researcher found that in the decade to 2017, risk ...

Latest investment scam targets Jersey residents

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... approaching Islanders offering services in relation to shares, stocks and foreign exchange transactions. Focus on Market is not regulated in Jersey or Australia; a search of the ASIC business register shows no result of any such company. Any financial ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday. Not only did we notice it gov, we expected it! But perhaps not very many noticed that while it was not a cut and paste job, the ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... 60 earns 2% less per year [and] over 30 years that's a heavy price to pay for wanting to manage your own money and that's not a good idea," he added.