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Are Aussies super know-it-alls?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... the age of 18. The results show a decreasing number of Australian workers claim to know the actual amount in their super funds. This year 64% claimed to know their super balance, down 4% on 2014. The report suggests 51% believe their super fund will ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... currencies, so too is the yuan - making "Made in China" exports less competitive, slowing down their economy. The flow of funds out of emerging markets is borne of this as the strengthening US dollar and/or due to the prospect of US higher interest rates ...

Insurance premiums should be questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... insurance to make it more affordable." Life insurance premiums are one of the constant battles that face superannuation funds. Media Super deputy chief executive, Michael Rooney, told an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event this ...

Super to fund Aussie infrastructure: Shorten

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... projects. In turn Infrastructure Australia "would transfer its equity or debt interests to long term investors such as super funds to maximise the return to the Commonwealth and so that capital can be recommitted to new projects." It is a plan that federal ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... labor-market improvement in 2015 is not all that surprising." Therefore, "I don't see raising the target range for the fed-funds rate above its current low level in 2015 or 2016 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... part of the day," Turnbull said. "We have the huge advantage obviously of a gigantic superannuation industry, a gigantic funds management industry and that is an enormous base upon which to build. We've got very strong financial regulation, prudential ...

Australian Catholic Super launches retirement income product

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... the growth bucket to allow for capital growth, increasing the likelihood of pension income lasting longer into retirement. Funds are automatically redistributed between the two buckets and members do not need to actively manage the allocation of their ...

Myonlineadvisers teams up with US robo firm

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... client appetite for efficient online support to their firm's advantage also." Long used by fund managers, pension plans and funds of funds, RiXtrema has introduced its risk management tools to the wealth management community in the USA and beyond to ...

Don't flood managed accounts with excess investment options: advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... Rainmaker research into managed account platforms that showed some managed accounts to now be offering large numbers of managed funds in addition to direct equities and model portfolios. Managed account platforms in the Rainmaker study offer 4,000 investment ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... inflation - slightly less than the 3.5 to 4% above inflation range that is often the stated long term target for balanced funds. Despite the overall SelectingSuper index's fall to 6.5%, the index was sustained by international equities that returned ...