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European DC Pension market to hit A$3.7tr by 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... the next five years and push assets to A$3.7 trillion by 2015. But they warn that as the DC pension provision moves centre stage, fund managers must expand their thinking about product design and distribution. Central to the discussion of pension provision ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... per cent, to 5,829.54 points. Milan led the losers, falling 3.78 per cent after being down more than four per cent at one stage. Madrid, also seen as a possible eurozone debt crisis victim, was down 2.09 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose on Wednesday ...

APRA: Investment world still clouded with uncertainty

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... (ARPA), which supervises the majority of members of the superannuation industry in Australia, said that events on the world stage since June 30 have had an impact. "The sharp decline in global and domestic equity markets since year-end has had an immediate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... austerity measures to ease the country's strained public finances. The yield on Italian 10-year government bonds at one stage hit 6.402 per cent, topping the 6.397 per cent reached in August when the ECB was forced to intervene to prop up the bond market. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, following the positive lead of the Dow Jones overnight despite no sign US unemployment was letting up nor America's growth picking up substantially. At 0620 AEDT on Thursday, the December share ...

CFS and Aussie launch planning arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
Colonial First State and Aussie Home Loans will partner up to launch a new financial planning service next year. A Colonial First State (CFS) spokesperson confirmed to Financial Standard that a pilot process is underway for a new financial planning ...

MilitarySuper chief executive to stand down

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... commuting between his home in Melbourne and the fund's head office in Canberra, but said he had no new role lined up at this stage. On July 1 the MilitarySuper Board merged with the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (DFRDB) Authority and the ...

ASIC accepts Commonwealth Financial Planning EU

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... comprehensively examine its risk management system to ensure non compliance issues will be detected at the earliest possible stage and remedied. "It demonstrates ASIC will hold gatekeepers to account and expects licensed entities offering financial services ...

Sigma FM joins forces with Pinnacle

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... small cap teams. Sigma director Stephen Guibin said the time was right for the firm to form a partnership. "We're at the stage where we really need to grow the business in terms of getting the right sort of distribution support in particular," Guibin ...

Wealthy prefer online shopping

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
New research into online shopping shows that men not women are driving the charge, that wealthy people do it more often and that the 'touch and feel' factor is no big deal. Real estate group CBRE surveyed 10,000 people across 10 European countries and ...