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70 pct retirees see advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... interaction, like long statements of advice, want to receive financial advice and are willing to trust their advisers. The above is not a snapshot of the Aussie market in the 60s, but a portrait of how pre-retirees think today. "Pre-retirees are the ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... through the appreciation of the euro -it's regaining strength against the US dollar. The euro is now fetching US$1.36, 6.1% above the 2013 low of US$1.28. It started weakening on Fed taper talks but rebounded as soon as the Fed killed it. And guess what ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

NAB launches new set of real return portfolios

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... March, National Australian Bank's (NAB) MLC has launched a new set of real return portfolios that aim to deliver returns above inflation for investors. MLC Investment Management was first to market with a real return offer, the Long Term Absolute Return ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... continue with its bond-buying program. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 147.21 points overnight to 15,676.94, 18 points above the previous record set on August 2. The broad-based S&P 500 also rose, 20.76 points to 1,725.52, clearing its previous ...

Aussie ETF industry comes of age

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
... account, investing cash in at call accounts with APRA-regulated banks. BetaShares has negotiated a favourable rate of 95 bps above the RBA rate which, at a charge of just 0.18%, is better than most term-deposits available to retail investors. The advantage ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... more SMSFs become the cheapest alternative provided the trustees undertake some of the administration and SMSF of sizes above $500,000 can be the cheapest alternative.

NAB delays staff salary increases

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... According to FSU, NAB's response to the union's demands included clawing back the additional superannuation currently paid above the government's minimum employer conditions and "waters down redundancy protection." The union said that a number of employees ...

New AllianceBernstein fund offers solution for Fed tapering

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... riskier high yield credit in both developed and emerging markets. It aims to achieve a return of at least 200 basis points above the UBS Australia Bank Bill Index over a rolling five year period. Presenting the new strategy at a briefing in Sydney yesterday ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... broad-based.A Indeed, for apart from France and Greece, the output indices in respective eurozone member states have all broken above the 50 expansion/contraction mark last month. These positive developments and outlook make it hardly surprising to witness ...