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Bond king left midnight resignation letter

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
Bill Gross's 43-year career with PIMCO ended with a handwritten resignation note left "in the middle of the night," according to a new court filing from the fixed income giant. The 'bond king', as he is known, left PIMCO's Newport Beach office for the ...

UK to introduce lifetime ISAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... Lifetime ISAs will enable any adult under 40 to save up to £4,000 (A$8,000) each year which will be supplemented by a 25% bonus from the government. Britons can continue making contributions up to age 50. While the scheme is designed to help people ...

QSuper takes industry leap with retirement incomes

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
QSuper is leveraging its scale as one of the country's largest superannuation funds to offer accumulation members a bonus should they keep post-retirement savings at the $60 billion industry fund. As thousands of its members near retirement, Queensland's ...

Women on boards tracking well: AMP Capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
AMP Capital is satisfied the cultural shift to increase gender diversity on Australian listed company boards is heading in the right direction but says the challenge is not complete. Releasing its latest corporate governance report AMP Capital said ...

Australian wages grow slowest on record but real is better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on wages may have disappointed expectations but also confirmed what workers have been experiencing all along. The Wage Price Index - total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses - grew by 2.2% ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
"UK inflation climbs to highest in a year" (Irish Times). "UK inflation nudges up to 12-month high" (Financial Times). "UK inflation gathers steam in January" (Business Spectator). In a world where low and/or declining prices have become the norm, headlines ...

Paying women more super not the answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... time,'" Riegelhuth said. Multiforte Financial Services director Kate McCallum said an incentive such as the previous pension bonus scheme had a multi-dimensional impact. She said it encouraged women to stay in the work force for longer and when they ...

ANZ pays $13m to saver customers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... million to 200,000 customers using Progress Saver Accounts (PSAs). The compensation is being paid due to ANZ failing to apply bonus interest to these accounts. PSA customers who satisfy withdrawal and deposit requirements each month are entitled to bonus ...

Paying super on parental leave could help gender gap: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
A quarter of Australian businesses don't pay superannuation whilst employees are on parental leave, adding another hurdle to addressing the super gender gap according to Mercer. The global investment and retirement consultant released its 2015 Gender ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...