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Industry funds reign supreme: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Industry superannuation funds are set to continue their dominance of the sector, with not-for-profit funds already accounting for about two-thirds of Australia's total superannuation assets. Insights from Rainmaker Information show retail super funds ...

Marriage equality and the estate plan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Australian same-sex couples can legally marry from today and financial advisers are being reminded of the estate planning challenges this historic occasion may trigger for clients. While the ability to legally wed brings considerable benefits as a result ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
There's certainly no denying that the bulls ruled Wall Street over the course of 2017 with its record breaking feat splattered all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq ...

Global asset manager appoints Aussie managing director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
An investment industry veteran has stepped down from his role as managing director at the Australian office of a US-based multi-affiliate asset manager. His successor has also been named. Prior to the Christmas holidays Gregor Rennie indicated to Affiliated ...

AustralianSuper launches insurance-free product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
AustralianSuper has launched a new product that will combat superannuation account balances eroding from insurance premiums. Super Only protects short-term workers' accounts employed under the Supported Employment Services Award. Disability supported ...

Janus Henderson wins global mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Janus Henderson has won a global fixed interest mandate. Alpha Fund Managers appointed the actively managed Janus Henderson Global Fixed Interest Total Return Fund to its growing list of multi-managed funds. Janus Henderson manages more than $101 billion ...

Eurozone low-flation to 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Final estimates of Eurozone HICP (harmonised index of consumer prices) inflation added credence to the European Central Bank's (ECB) most recent forward guidance indicating that euro area interest rates will remain on ice until at least the third quarter ...

Ho ho hum MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
What a difference seven months made. More specifically the time Budget 2017-18 was released last May to the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) released yesterday. The difference is A$5.8 billion. This is the improvement in the country's budget ...

Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
Markets hate uncertainty and surprises. We all know this and this truism was in full display this year and more recently, Wall Street's climb to fresh record highs over the weekend following the Fed's expected and well-telegraphed 25 basis point rate ...

Macquarie sells remaining stake in Atlas Roads for $456m

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
After Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) internalised management functions following shareholder pressure, Macquarie has sold down its remaining stake in the listed investment company. Via a bookbuild, Macquarie sold 76 million shares in MQA for $6 per share. ...