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Consumers reluctant to use online advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... issue. Less than a third of Australians feel financially savvy when it came to wealth management. Only 28% were confident enough to conduct wealth management activities online, while the rest preferred to do it in person. The FSC research was conducted ...

Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... tensions in the Ukraine, and back up again on US data indicating that the economy remains on a growth trend, but not strong enough to push the Fed to bring forward interest rate hikes... or so the headlines say. Methinks the overriding theme here is ...

Younger Australians taking interest in superannuation

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... People from Western Australia and Tasmania were the least concerned. Those who have children are more concerned about having enough for retirement compared to those who don't have children. The more children the family has, the more concerns there are. ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... crash." "This year, for sure - maybe from a higher diving board - the S&P will drop 20 per cent." Whoops! Sorry not gloomy enough. "I think, rather, 30 per cent. Who knows?" Who knows indeed! Only the good doctor knows... just as he knew less than a ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... revenue collected by our GST," implying that the debate around increasing and broadening the GST base is not a significant enough structural policy change to address the much more complex issue of an aging Australia. But it was Hockey's citation of IMF ...

AstuteWheel launch estate planning tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... being done," AsuteWheel co-creator Hans Egger said, and added that "recommending the client to go see a solicitor is not enough." Egger explained that the tool allows clients to "feel empowered and informed" when they meet the solicitor and, at the same ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... gain and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7% -- good the US economy's momentum still has traction but not good enough to prompt the Fed to bring forward interest rate hikes which is... errr, good. Still, despite the big picture remaining as it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... Analysts said investors remain in a fairly hopeful mood following a run of economic data that, while not outstanding, is "good enough" to persuade that the economy is on a good path, said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. LONDON ...

Silk questions value of financial services intermediaries

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... are protected." He highlighted the existence of risk groups such as people in their 50s who realise that they don't have enough to retire and "get into risky products during the last working years to try to catch up." Brogden said that "this is a very ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... it would take a looong time before the unemployment rate even comes close to 6.5% back in December 2012 and so were game enough to put that promise on paper that they wouldn't even consider raising interest rates till then. This is the reason why the ...