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Funds should target retirement income not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
Poor super fund returns due the worldwide share slump continue to highlight how traditional super fund design is all about accumulation while neglecting the main objective of retirement income. "We've built an accumulation system, we haven't built a ...

Cup Day: Aussies to win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
Europe update: They're still having a go at it. And financial markets are bobbing up and down with every fresh update. Most European stock markets closed weaker because "Hopes fade for quick summit fix for Europe woes," says theage.com.au's headline ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's trading more than one per cent higher and after local shares rose on Wednesday. At 0840 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 27 points ...

Fidelity, UBS GAM directors join FSC

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
Gerard Doherty, managing director of Fidelity Australia, and Ben Heap, managing director of UBS Global Asset Management in Australia and New Zealand, have joined the FSC board of directors. Announced yesterday at the Financial Services Council (FSC) ...

D-day deferred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
OMG! Here we go again. I hate to admit it but remember those three scenarios I listed on this space only two days ago? Well, Europe proved me wrong! For those who had a sudden attack of Mondayitis that day, here's what I wrote: "We're told that by 26 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market is set to open lower on Wednesday due to doubts European leaders will agree on a package to resolve Europe's escalating debt crisis. Wall Street and European markets fell overnight due to reports key parts of the rescue ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
An agreement is nigh! That, at least, is the conclusion one could derive if one had one's ear pressed closed to the European Union meeting in Brussels. There really was nothing fresh about the fresh reports that littered cyberspace after the 23 October ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street and the major Europen markets finished up overnight. At 0847 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 32 points at 4,281. In economic news on Tuesday ...

Industry panel turns up FOFA heat

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
The 'future is in your hands' industry panel participants treated day one of the 2011 AFA conference to a lively debate over the architecture of the future of financial advice reforms, the regulatory separation of superannuation from the rest of the ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Quiet please, EU meeting in progress. Yes Virginia, they're still at it. Two years on and Europe's back at the negotiating table trying to dig their way out of the hole first dug by Greece in October 2009. One begins to wonder how they were able consummate ...