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Robo-advice challenged by price expectations

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Robo-advice providers will have to contend with the widespread expectation that their services should be free. This was one of the key findings of recently-released ANZ research, based on survey of 750 ANZ customers in New Zealand. According to the ...

Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... excluded from the pension income test, effective 1 January 2016. The cap was previously 50%. The new cap is expected to generate more than $465 million in budget savings over forward estimates. Before the new cap was passed in the Senate, Queensland ...

Prime Super awards multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
Prime Super has awarded a multi-asset mandate to a $110.5 billion global investment manager. Following on from Prime Super's insurance mandate with CommInsure on December 12, PineBridge Investments announced the super fund has made an allocation to ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Financial services firms are paying some of Australia's highest tax bills as a percentage of their total income according to data released by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) yesterday. The measure highlighted that six financial services companies were ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... well as supporting expansion through the pipeline of development projects," Binghua said. Pacific Hydro's projects generate about 900 megawatts per year and a further 1700MW are in the development pipeline of greenfield projects. Its current operating ...

ETF businesses bullish on growth prospects

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... new product spending in the next 18 months. While 24% of promoters and investors believe enhanced beta products will generate growth in the future, only 4% of investors (compared to 22% of product promoters) view currency hedged ETFs as more important ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... less than a forthnight ago: "... I anticipate continued economic growth at a moderate pace that will be sufficient to generate additional increases in employment and a rise in inflation to our 2 per cent objective. Although the economic outlook, as always ...

Local shares lacklustre in 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... around how much our local economy will grow. In this environment the focus of investors will increasingly be on how to generate yield," he said. "Investors are going to have to turn their minds to other sources of yield. This is especially pertinent ...

SMSFs could own Kidman Station

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
A crowd-funded initiative is proposing that self-managed super funds (SMSFs) raise about $360 million to acquire Kidman Station. The initiative, started by retail investment platform DomaCom and financial adviser Stephen Burgin, was set up following ...

AB wins industry fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... overlay service which aims to improve risk-adjusted returns in multi-manager portfolios without reducing the potential to generate alpha. The service applies a "disciplined quantitative process" combining AB's proprietary risk and alpha models. It aims ...