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ETF Securities launches product creation service

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... CANVAS, a new service enabling asset managers from around the world to build and launch exchange-traded funds in Europe. The white-labelling service includes the ability to build ETFs using ETF Securities' infrastructure, set up a bespoke ETF platform ...

ISN criticises "irresponsible" CPA super report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
CPA Australia's latest report on the superannuation system is "irresponsible" and based on "flawed" methodology, according Industry Super Network (ISN) chief executive David Whiteley. The central finding of the report was that the gradual rise in superannuation ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... will put a huge strain on the Age Pension. This is a collective problem, and the solution will require consensus. ASFA's White Paper published in May 2013 suggests a solution is reachable. A move - compulsory or voluntary - away from lump sums, and an ...

Lonsec and Milliman partner for post-retirement research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... engage their clients about their retirement objectives. The announcement follows the 2012 release of a jointly authored white paper, which presented the current financial advice model serving retirees as suboptimal and challenged commonly used approaches ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... plunge after a bogus Twitter message from a hacked Associated Press account said there were two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama had been injured. LONDON - European stock markets rose strongly as traders focused on corporate earnings ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Berlusconi's party. It then swung sharply down to a loss of 0.3 per cent after polls showed the centre-right ahead in the upper house Senate, meaning a coalition would be necessary, only to finish the day up 0.73 per cent to 16,352 points. The euro had ...

Baby boomers stagger blindfold into retirement: REST

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... research release by industry super heavyweight REST Industry Super today. Dubbed The Journey Begins, the REST-commissioned white paper - based on the attitudes of 1,200 Australians approaching retirement - reveals a massive disconnect between what baby ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... index closed 21.65 points lower, down 0.72 per cent, at 2,992.16. In Washington, House Speaker John Boehner said the White House was so resistant to cutting government spending that it risked pushing the country off the "fiscal cliff." The "cliff" is ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... is reached to reduce the US budget deficit. The Wall Street Journal reported that budget negotiations between the White House and Republican House Speaker John Boehner had "progressed steadily" in recent days. That reinvigorated talks that appeared to ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... of automatic tax increases and federal spending cuts scheduled to start January 1. President Barack Obama said the White House and Republicans could reach an agreement "in about a week" if the Republicans drop their opposition to raising taxes on making ...