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Australia unprepared for FTAs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Australian financial services industry is unprepared for a "bonanza" arising from free trade agreements with China, Japan and South Korea, according to Finsia research. Multiple factors including rapid market growth (between 2.5% and 7% over the ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... predicted that services, including finance, "will be the big new drivers of wealth creation and job creation over the next decade." He noted that "for every dollar we spend buying Chinese goods and services, the Chinese spend two dollars buying our goods ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
In the absence of an increase in the superannuation guarantee, industry representative groups agree Australians will need to put more money in to their super accounts after changes to the Age Pension were announced in the federal budget. Most changes ...

SEC and FINRA issue robo warning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has issued a warning to investors regarding what it calls 'automated investment tools,' a group of web-based tools that include robo-advisers. The warning, prepared by the SEC's Office of Investor Education ...

Asian equities on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Asian consumers are on the rise. Whereas in the developed world, disposable income has been basically flat for the last decade."

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Tempo Asset Management joined the ranks of global equities managers who are forecasting the end of the United States bull market. The third largest bull market in the US history has delivered "a remarkable performance but it's also very unusual," Tempo ...

Retirees 'much worse' off: RBA

JASON CADDEN FOR AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... for the future, Stevens said. He said people leaving the workforce today have got it much tougher than those who left a decade ago. "Just about everywhere in the world, the price of buying a given annual flow of future income has gone up a lot,"A Stevens ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The latest fixed income market outlook from BlackRock's Rick Rieder poses the interesting question of whether there are some assets in a portfolio which are there for the long term and others which have a place for a short time, depending on opportunities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... results. In Australia, the market on Friday ended the week strongly, with gains on the back of a rally in iron ore prices from decade lows. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 88.5 points, or 1.5 per cent, at 5,933.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... Australia's superannuation system. "Not only has the bank-owned sector underperformed industry super fund sector over the last decade, it has dragged down the aggregate performance of Australia's super system to below that of the OECD average," he said. ...