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CHOICE adds another super voice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... been either copied from other sectors or driven by regulatory change," Kirkland said. "The digital experience of super is pretty underwhelming - the only major change I've noticed is that I now receive my statements by email. In contrast, digital product ...

Government lagging on super policy: Labor

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... threshold for the 15% high income superannuation charge from $300,000 to $250,000), Chalmers said: "We think that these two pretty modest changes strike the right balance between fairness and sustainability, they maintain concessionality while reducing ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... market is sometimes unfairly labeled as being the most competitive. "What we've seen is that all sections of the market, in pretty much every jurisdiction globally, are quite competitive. We've got a lot of the same players in each place," Orr said. ...

Not enough super users: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... workforce) is considerably less than other countries who have well developed and well respected systems. "We thought we might do pretty well here because our super system is compulsory - well it is compulsory for employees earning more than $450 a month. ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... February - the highest reading since July 2010 and the eight straight month of above-50 readings - from 51.5 in January. With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? And were it not for still low inflation in the country, RBA Gov Glenn and his ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... rising by 0.8% in the three months ended December 2015 when they were expected to drop by 3.0% but... they're still not a pretty set of numbers. Uglier still, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), "Estimate 1 for 2016-17 is $82,572m. ...

Magellan average monthly inflows hit $214m

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... confidence in Australian stocks has shaken, and maybe we're getting more interest in global equities and obviously we've got a pretty good representation and get a reasonable share if there is more interest out of retail advisers," he explained. As to ...

Minimum withdrawal rates act as default: CSIRO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... likely to draw down at a slightly higher rate. "We've broken down the data in to larger and smaller balances and you see pretty similar patterns," Reeson said. "So what we're seeing is very conservative drawing down behavior in most cases and of course ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... members, over a one year period, are converting into a pension account. If you look over longer periods of time this is pretty stable," Johnson said. "The higher balance members are more likely to open a pension, it makes more sense as they can afford ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... released its "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" report where it scaled down its growth and inflation forecasts (I'm pretty sure they've already seen this before they convened last month). The BOE now expects real GDP growth of 1.2% at the end ...