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Advice improves lifestyle outcomes: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... advisers provide to Australians in helping them achieve financial goals and retirement dreams. "Most Australians have a pretty good idea of the lifestyle they want to live now and in retirement. But a lack of financial literacy could be blamed for what ...

ASIC toughens MDA suitability rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... considerable responsibility on the MDA provider." "Whether it will be changed - we don't know, but I think ASIC is looking pretty firm on it," she said.

A hedge fund by any other name

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... there's an ever-expanding definition of what a hedge fund actually is, but if you look at it through an ASIC lens, it's pretty clear: it's defining it as a complex strategy or structure that uses leverage, derivatives, potentially shorting, charges a ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... to yield good returns, but he was not going to question the fund's asset allocation decisions which "to date have been pretty good." "AustralianSuper has about 3% in fixed interest securities and the average super fund is 12 to 13%. We plead guilty to ...

Females dominating non-concessional contributions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... Australians' balances are solely comprised of employer contributions, or the 9.5% superannuation guarantee. "This has been pretty stable throughout the whole five years of the research. This really highlights the power of the default contribution settings ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... used quant tools that we've developed over 25 years," he said. "In my past life I worked at Tudor Investments, which is a pretty-well known US hedge fund. If you'd told us about quant back then, we would've said, 'What do you mean? Quant stuff is for ...

Federal Budget is a Ginger Spice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... designed to avoid any comparisons to its far more controversial 2014 predecessor. "This time the Government has played a pretty straight bat and stuck closely to its pre-Budget announcement themes of infrastructure and housing affordability. Superannuation ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... under. When the RBA released its monetary policy decision last week - unchanged policy - governor Philip Lowe painted a pretty picture of the global and domestic economies. "There has been a broad-based pick-up in the global economy since last year," ...

Future of ANZ Wealth uncertain amid profit slide

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... could be listing ANZ Wealth separately on the ASX as a capital raising solution. "This is going to take time; this is a pretty big decision. And this is more about cultural fit and a partnership, not just a sale," Elliott said. Given that ANZ Wealth's ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... 63.0%. If there's still slack in the US labour market, it's quickly dissipating... and this even before Trump has spent a pretty penny on his reflation promises. Even the Fed sees "expansionary fiscal policies" as an upside risk. But there's also the ...