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Future of LISC in Palmer's hands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Thirty-five prominent figures in the superannuation industry have called on the Palmer United Party to use its influence in the Senate to block the scrapping of the low income superannuation contribution (LISC) scheme. The letter, organised by Women ...

Health and wealth go hand in hand: Survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... disconnect. We see the examples everyday - in finance - where we help clients pay off their debtA and we break up the total figure into a few small amounts and get clients to commit to pay off the small amounts first." Bodi also says there's a direct ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
The Australian share market is higher following a strong lead from Wall Street. The Dow and S&P 500 advanced to fresh records on Friday amid a lift in oil prices and the French government having favoured General Electric's proposal to take over Alstom's ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
Sovereign wealth funds are increasingly investing new allocations to alternative asset classes, figures from the second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study show. The study was conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors ...

Social media business use up 25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
More than one in four businesses in Australia had a social media presence in June 2013, according to survey results just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is up one quarter from one in five the previous year. Growth in social media ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... billion yuan inappropriately between 2006 and the audit, which took place in May-August last year, it said. For BOC, the figure was 6.4 billion yuan from 2004. CIC and ADBC also paid out dozens of millions of yuan in expenses claims on the basis of fake ...

Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The largest retail and wholesale fund providers have tightened their grip on the Australian market, reporting double digit growth over the 12 months to end of March 2014. The latest figures from Plan For Life show that overall retail managed funds ended ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after a choppy night on Wall Street where stocks ended slightly higher as investors weighed the Iraq crisis ahead of a US Federal Reserve policy decision. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index ...

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.