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Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... maintain production levels. These are coming back to haunt America... in the form of low inflation and weak external accounts. It's only been less than a year when the Fed ended QE (October 2014), are we now witnessing its nasty lagged effects? Should ...

AMP half-year profit up 33%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... legacy services (including whole of life, endowment, retirement savings account, insurance bonds and guaranteed savings accounts) at $80 million. AMP Capital contributed $72 million to overall profit, net of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation's ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... night (17 August) Bangkok was bombed. As it should. The terrorist attack would hit the country's tourism sector - which accounts for roughly 10% of the economy - in addition to the hits from China's slowdown and the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) recent ...

Islamic super fund sees 245% FUM growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... world's first private Islamic pension fund and it offers a series of investment options. Its Islamic cash management fund accounts for 29% of funds under management and it is followed by the diversified property fund (27%), an Australian equity fund ...

Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... agencies and super funds could work together to verify the identity of an individual and potentially consolidate multiple accounts, pay insurance claims or update simple details. The Working Group has committed to investigating ways that super funds ...

Xero inking partnership for real-time PI insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... director Chris Ridd said that the real-time cover concept follows on from banks using Xero's data to examine businesses' accounts receivable, payments and revenue history for loan credit-checking. "All of the data they need, in fact more data than they ...

Macquarie adviser forged signatures, lied to clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... regulator found that he forged client documents. Shawn Hickman engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on his clients' accounts between November 2009 and October 2012, even though MEL prohibited its representatives from engaging in discretionary ...

Executive appointment round-up

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... Securities has appointed former head of fixed income at Dixon Advisory Funds Management, Alwyn Hung, to lead a new managed accounts service for bonds. LUCRF investment head departs - LUCRF Super head of investments Martin Drew will leave the fund on ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... Direct property delivered +10%, Australian equities and international bonds +6%, Australian bonds +5% and cash +2%. Member accounts that had low exposure to growth assets, such as SMSFs and retirees, may thus have experienced relatively poor performance. ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... administered for a cost of around $210 per year but his research shows it should be possible for product providers to offer accounts for $100 per year. "We believe MySuper will knock off about 10% in fees by 2018 with most of those savings coming from ...