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The "ber" months are coming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013

NTAA keen to establish referral relations with advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... statement." Osborne reiterated that bad decisions from advisers "can catastrophically affect consumers." "If you go back to the times when the financial planning industry began, at that time it was about being a professional, recognizing a problem and ...

North Asian cyclical stocks 'unjustifiably cheap'

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... were showing huge disparities in valuation between them. The ASEAN nations, for instance, are trading at a premium of 1.5 times while the Philippines -- the most expensive region - is trading at double the average. "Cyclicals and North Asia are unjustifiably ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... recommended that lump sum withdrawals attract a tax - 15% for withdrawals up to a certain point (ASFA suggests two or three times annual earnings) and 30% thereafter. ASFA has also recommended that the guaranteed contribution rate be raised to 15%. Currently ...

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... after the GFC took only 2A1/2 years to recover from it while a member who stopped contributing took 6 years or almost 3-times longer. Christopher Page, Rainmaker's managing director, said, "By all means disgruntled fund members should review their fund ...

Trust Company still recommending Perpetual proposal

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... assessment found that the $14 million of syndergies claimed by Perpetual are supportable and that the implementation costs of two times synergies that the company estimates are conservative "but are based on recent successful delivery of cost reduction ...

Pengana eyes reporting season short-selling opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... factor provides a "sense check" of the underlying fundamental analysis of companies, with a flight to quality typical in times of heightened volatility that we are now seeing," he said. Telecommunications, health care, consumer discretionary and property ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... recording fresher and newer record highs as the US economy is still improving and still slowly. I've said this many, many times before...because the Fed do not want to unwind all the good and beautiful things it has created by unwinding prematurely. ...

Giant firms hold sway in infrastructure investment industry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... and smallest firms. Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) raised $26.2 billion in the last decade, more than six times the amount raised by the firm in tenth place on the list, LS Power Group. The second largest firm, Global Infrastructure ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... investment. If we add in dwelling construction and public investment then the total of non-mining investment is nearly four times the size of mining investment," Swan said. "Interest rates are at record lows. Fiscal policy is being tightened at a responsible ...