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Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has insisted that despite the challenges the bank has faced in its financial advice business and in spite of widespread digitisation, face-to-face planners will remain at the heart of the company's business ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... 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, the mammoths of the tech world have joined in the "bash Australia" crowd. There's ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Let's talk about managed accounts

... group, pulled from the same sample of respondents for the research, rejected this headline result. They suggested the true problem lies in the "general lack of adviser understanding of the topic," particularly since there are no legal requirements to ...

SMSF direct property investment jumps 60pct

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
The value of self-managed super fund (SMSF) investment in residential real estate has jumped 60% in the last four years, according to figures from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In its submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry ...

Rice Warner highlights $1.8trn insurance gap

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... income protection) is $1.6 billion. At the same time, it's unclear whether increasing group insurance cover would solve the problem, given that this could result in attrition of super balances, which would then potentially increase dependence on the ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... passing reform legislations before 20 July - the real hard D-day - before a tranche of the bailout funding is released. Problem is... Greece can legislate all it wants, enforcement and compliance is the problem as they were after the first bailout and ...

Bank glitch delays government super payments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
A problem with the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation's bank has delayed the superannuation payments to thousands of retirees. The CSC said on Friday morning that "about 99% of payments by value and volume were processed yesterday and that they ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street slumped on worries about China and Greece in a session that was overshadowed by a lengthy outage at the New York Stock Exchange due to technical problems. At 0800 AEST on Thursday, the ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
An industry group believes raising the superannuation Preservation Age would see the number of involuntary retirees blow out while a separate group says the idea needs to be flexible in allowing early super access. Following a Productivity Commission ...

FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
This year, Vanguard overtook PIMCO as the world's largest mutual bond fund. But the wars between active and passive investment are not over. In a world where lower for longer is the new normal, active managers argue they are the only ones who can bring ...