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Aussie fintech partners with Alibaba

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Australian fintech lender GetCapital is offering finance to support purchases on Alibaba.com from suppliers in any country under a new partnership announced recently. The collaboration is, for the first time, providing Australian importers and exporters ...

Are Aussies super know-it-alls?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... superannuation guarantee must be increased to 12% sooner rather than later to plug the $136 billion blow-out in the retirement savings gap, which is the difference between the amount the working population will accumulate by retirement and the amount ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... equities therefore performed particularly poorly in the year to August. Reflecting this, within the Workplace sector, the gap in the 12 month return in favour of not-for-profit (NFP) funds over retail funds increased to 90 basis points as NFP funds averaged ...

Senate hears too many holes for women in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... retirement, Women In Super chair Cate Wood said a range of policy measures were needed to improve the gender super savings gap. "While there seems to be a growing consensus of the need to reform the super tax concessions, the savings made must be redirected ...

Super funds cautious about administration

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... nature of administration requires heavy investment in technology and the fact that Superpartners was unable to bridge that gap demonstrates just how many dollars you have got to throw at that," Fishlock said. "Unfortunately when you have got that sort ...

Industry funds challenged by lack of in-house advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... planner for the top 5 industry funds is 36,810. "While this ignores supportive IFA networks, it does give a sense of the advice gap between industry and retail funds," the research said.

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

Pension and retirement strategies a global problem

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... of the defined benefit system and taking a complete view of their financial needs," Pallisco said. The survey also showed a gap between the views of government and policymakers and pension plan providers in a number of areas, including having clear strategy ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has made a multi-million investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was ...

Government should super seed low income earners

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... income Australians between 27 and 36 years old. Known as "Super Seed" the payment would help bridge the superannuation gender gap as well as leverage compound interest. "The proposal turns on its head the idea of just making catch up contributions later ...