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Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... from physical to digital payments as evidenced by the adoption of contactless in the UK with 53 million transactions in March 2015.

Equipsuper invests in fintech, robo-advice firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... financial advice," Press said. Equip expects to roll out its automated advice service for members using Clover's technology in March 2016. Clover was established in 2014 by a team with experience across financial planning, asset management and information ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... labour market conditions - showing that while labour market conditions have steadily improved from a reading of minus 1 in March this year, August's 2.1 reading remains below the level when our old friend Ben (Bernanke) announced taper back in December ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... imperative for Super Mario's return. After dropping from US$1.2104 in the beginning of this year to a low US$1.10496 in March (when the ECB commenced its €60 billion monthly bond purchases), the euro had been trending higher and reached a high of US$1.1619 ...

JBWere appoints philanthropic services head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... Executor Trustees and has also held multiple roles at Perpetual. Dass replaces David Knowles who joined Koda Capital in March, as reported in Financial Standard. JBWere's philanthropic services team was established in 2001 and is targeted at servicing ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... ($58,444). This is based on the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) retirement standards released in March 2015, although ASFA recently updated the standards. Take away the Age Pension though and couples are only expected to be 60% ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Custodians are on track reduce settlement times from three days to two days in time for the official regime change in March 2016. Firms are gearing up to start testing their readiness for the new T+2 Settlement regime in October. "Reducing settlement ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year periods, with as little volatility as possible. The strategy was established in March 2011 and since it launched it has delivered an annualised return of 4.95% net of fees to 31 July 2015. Standard Life Investments ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... first entrants, notably of Magellan Financial Group, which launched an ASX-quoted version of the Magellan Global Fund in March. The listing of this first exchange traded managed fund on ASX's AQUA platform was followed by K2 Asset Management, which listed ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... 6.0% over the same period - down from 6.8% in the previous month, yet sturdier than the 5.6% and 5.9% growth recorded in March and April and just a tad lower than May's 6.1% rate. Fixed asset investment is clearly slowing, down to 11.2% in the first ...