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May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... expectations were for a 0.7% print and the weakest growth rate since Q1 2014 -- from 1.4% in the final quarter of last year. Not only this, US inflation is also moving away from the Fed's 2.0% target. The core PCE price index - the Fed's favoured inflation ...

Instos turn to smart beta in low-return world: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... investment models in the current lower-for-longer return environment," SSGA head of investments, Asia-Pacific Kevin Anderson said. "Not only does this challenge traditional, strategic asset allocation models by forcing greater consideration of risk - ...

Associations support adviser standards amendments

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... and practical approach for existing advisers or planners to transition and comply with new education requirements. "We do not want to lose some of our most experienced advisers from the industry, so we are pleased to see a common sense approach to the ...

APRA counts life insurance losses

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... market highly exposed to movements in market conditions. APRA claimed that thin margins were exposed through pricing that did not align with policy benefits. This was highlighted in a trend whereby default coverage increased in group life schemes, but ...

ISA calls out pre-Budget arguments on contribution caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... payments. Australian Tax Office (ATO) data analysed by ISA shows the catch-up contributions that attract a tax concession are not being made by the vast majority of working Australians, especially women on lower incomes and working part-time. ISA said ...

Asia Funds Passport signed off

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... efficiently and must include a new collective investment vehicle. "At the moment in Australia we have unit trusts which are not well understood by Asian investors. So if Australia had new collective investment vehicles, we think that would attract much ...

SMSF Association implores Govt not to reduce contribution caps

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... contribution caps to allow people to make the necessary contributions to their superannuation, these catch-up contributions will not be made, reducing people's ability to achieve adequate superannuation savings to rely upon on retirement." "Any move ...

Narev defends CommInsure record, wrote to five customers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... letter that "some of the criticism of the industry, and our life insurance business CommInsure, has been fair and some has not." He noted that in 2015, CommInsure paid over $850 million in claims to 22,000 people, arguing that the "business is delivering ...

EQT managing director departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
Equity Trustees' managing director has announced his resignation. Robin Burns joined EQT in 2010, having previously been chief executive of Equipsuper. Prior to that, he was general manager - corporate affairs at AXA Asia Pacific, chief executive - ...

No bachelor's degree for existing advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
The government has announced that existing advisers will not be required to complete a bachelor's degree and will be given a longer time frame to meet new education standards in its revised draft legislation. In a statement, Assistant Treasurer and ...