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Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... nearly all - many investors braced for didn't quite add up. US equities, the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the US dollar, they all fell down last week as investors feared an escalation of tensions with North Korea - after its testing of a hydrogen ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... macro-economy and central bank policy responses. Take for example the Reserve Bank of Australia's latest missive: "The Australian dollar has appreciated over recent months, partly reflecting a lower US dollar. The higher exchange rate is expected to ...

Retirement village receives super fund boost

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... their 'members first' philosophy and culture," Bindon said. The investment follows HESTA's announcement of a $19 million dollar investment in Australia's first suburban village designed to recreate real life experiences for those living with dementia ...

New MDRT Australia chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... Association of Financial Advisers and JBS Financial Strategists chief executive Jenny Brown is the new chair of Million Dollar Roundtable Australia. After more than two years in the role, Adam McCann announced he is stepping down and named Brown as his ...

The pointy end of super regulation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
With the risk of market turmoil subsiding, super funds are now contending with preparing for two key pieces of industry regulation. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference on the Gold Coast, new AIST ...

Sole fund closed by Australian equities manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... the boutique will no longer manage money for external clients while he takes a break. "I've been managing multi-billion dollar portfolios for a couple of decades and am looking forward to having some time out for now," Fiani said. "We've achieved a lot ...

Infradebt attracts super fund investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... members access to nation-building infrastructure projects like solar farms and social infrastructure with a new multi-million dollar investment. Future Super, which manages more than $340 million on behalf of 11,000 members, announced its $50 million ...

Female SMSF investors more focused on securing retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... men and women with both SMSF and personal trading accounts showed females invested almost one-and-a-half times more in dollar terms into their SMSFs than in their personal accounts - the opposite of men in the same demographic. CommSec said this is indicative ...

CBA commits to bond-structured climate change solutions

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... demonstrated considerable appetite for domestic climate bonds." In March, Commonwealth Bank issued the largest Australian dollar climate bond from an Australian bank at $650 million. The bond was backed by more than $1 billion of Australian renewable ...

Government funds ATO superannuation taskforce

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
A Superannuation Guarantee Taskforce is being established to crackdown on employers which fail to meet SG obligations and potentially short-change employees from their super. Federal Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer, said the ...