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Currency and managing volatility: New Financial Standard spot poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... equities portfolio?' The poll aims to provide a better understanding on how financial advisers view the impact of currency on overall portfolio returns. The Financial Standard weekly poll is open to all Financial Standard readers. The latest poll will ...

CBA advice compensation reaches $29m

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... financial loss for customers; and 5.7% involved incorrect charging of fees with no other financial loss attributed to advice. Overall Promontory determined that CBA's remediation program has been "delivered in line with its objectives." Promontory noted ...

Baby boomers lag on retirement planning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... extends well into retirement. In contrast, 45% of retirees don't believe they need advice at all. The report concludes: "Overall, we find that the retired population in our survey says they feel financially secure and believe their investment knowledge ...

Retail funds closing in on return gap

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... points, according to Rainmaker SelectingSuper research. While the one-year gap to April 2017 widened to 70 basis points, overall retail funds have performed slightly better due to, as the report puts it, "the relatively higher performance of retail funds ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... which expectations have been set, OECD per capita GDP growth remains over 1/2 percentage point weaker and global growth overall, projected to rise to just above 31/2 per cent by 2018, also lags." And risks remain. The OECD highlighted the financial risk ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... companies would run down these inventories in succeeding quarters (and therefore provide less contribution/detract from overall GDP growth).

ETP demand grows, fees stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... ETP products have gained sufficient size to counteract the effect of lower fees on the original products and kept the overall weighted Management Expense Ratio (MER) the same, the quarterly ETP report said. It found BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street ...

World Vision soft launches investment fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... flow-on effect of hiring more people, and will lead to their children gaining a better education - which ultimately has an overall positive impact for the community, she said. Rogers didn't specify any other instruments that might form part of the investment ...

ANZ Wealth adds SMAs to platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... "For advisers, the availability of SMAs means less time spent on administration and more time managing their clients' overall investment strategies." ANZ launched the Grow Wrap platform - a superannuation, pension and investment wrap platform designed ...

Australians failing to act on increased retirement cost

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... retirement for couples has grown 36% and a comfortable retirement will now cost around 26% more than in 2006, due to the overall 28.6% increase of the Consumer Price Index over the 11-year period. The latest Future of Retirement report from HSBC shows ...