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Social adviser implores positivity for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... planners to rally at the last hour and support the Positivity for Planners A campaign. In his post to a LinkedIn group yesterday, Gardner urged planners and advisers to send a powerful message about changing public perception of the industry. Positivity ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... their pants - headlines about the 8.5% biggest one-day fall since February 2007 dive in the Shanghai Composite index yesterday. What triggered the sell-off, nobody really knows. Someone shouted "fire" and everyone and his dog rushed for the exits - I ...

SMSFs keeping cash for better markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... Super reforms in 2008. The figures form part of annual SMSF research released jointly by Vanguard and Investment Trends yesterday. This year's report is based on a survey of about 4000 SMSF trustees and 501 financial advisers. Vanguard head of market ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... based on research by InvestSMART's own dedicated in-house investment team. "We're not a fintech startup. We didn't start yesterday in a garage," he said. Noting that some other direct-to-consumer tools essentially comprised "asking consumers five questions ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... go at us, Australians all, too. I was literally ROFL-ing when I read this piece from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) yesterday. The heading says it all really: "Apple, Google and Microsoft explain the problem with Australia's sharemarket". Yes Virginia ...

Consensus emerging on Tax White Paper

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... White Paper is about how the government collects tax, not how much. Hockey told the PwC Tax Reform Forum in Melbourne yesterday that more than 800 submissions on the Tax White Paper have been received and a consensus is emerging. "There's an understanding ...

Bank glitch delays government super payments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... thousands of retirees. The CSC said on Friday morning that "about 99% of payments by value and volume were processed yesterday and that they were expecting the remaining 1% to be processed overnight. "The cause of the delay in the payment of pensions ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday..." -- Spiral Staircase But would it be "...as much as tomorrow"? That's the musical version of "is this a dead cat bounce?" Yes Virginia, I refer to the Shanghai Composite Index which tumbled 5.9% one-day and ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... "crash", the "chaos" in its stock markets. Sure looks like it, with the Shanghai Composite Index clocking another 5.9% loss yesterday. Now there's fear about the word that had been long associated with Grexit - "contagion."A And it showed with most Asian ...

Australian shares up on ease over Greece

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "With the equanimity from European markets, not just from yesterday but also in the past couple of weeks, people realise that if they're taking it well then why should we go down?" he said. ...