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Women to feel pain of scrapped LISC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... ISA calculated that in New South Wales, 43.3% of women will be affected by the scrapping of the LISC. In Victoria that figure was 46.1%, while in Tasmania it was 52%. Regional Australians would also feel the impact of such a decision. Of the 25 worst ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... active equities debate. Currently 13% of funds under management in AMP Capital's CIF come from SMSFs, but Lucas said this figure more than twice what it was 18 months ago. The remainder of money comes through platforms.

Mother's Day Classic raises $4.5m for breast cancer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... Day Classic has raised $4.5 million for the National Breast Cancer Foundation in its 2014 campaign. This brings the total figure raised to $24.3 million since the campaign first ran in 1998. Mother's Day Classic National Chair Louise Davidson gave particular ...

Super insurance still worth billions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... insurance industry saw profit margins emerging from in-force business of $920 million. This was up $224 million on the figure projected at the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, the non-super life insurance sector underperformed expectations by $476 million ...

Investors find opportunity in SMSF conservative approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Self-managed super funds (SMSF) ultra conservative approach to investment can be turned into an opportunity for investors with higher tolerance for volatility. The latest Credit Suisse equity research explains that companies forecasted to raise dividend ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... to around 195,000 millionaire households, putting the country 14th in the global league tables, just ahead of India. The figure comes from the latest private wealth survey from management consultant, the Boston Consulting Group. Leading the charge in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after the European Central Bank announced measures to bolster eurozone growth. The ECB has rolled out key changes to interest rates and other anti-deflation measures which lifted the euro, US Treasuries ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... initial market reaction to the GDP (gross domestic product) figures was positive but then tapered off. "It (the headline GDP figure) is a good read but there are questions underlying it that suggest that a lot of things are still the same," Mr Lucas ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... consumer prices show the annual inflation rate easing to 0.5% In May from 0.7% in the previous month - as low as last March's figure and both at five-year lows. Take out the prices of volatile components - food, energy, alcohol and tobacco - and the ...

Super returns dampen but still double digit

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... down from 12.6% at end March, 12.8% at end February which was up marginally from 12.5% at end January. According to the figure at end December it was 16.1%. Three year super fund average annual returns are 8.3% pa, five year average annual returns are ...