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REST rolls out its millennial pitch

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... competitive space already served by some of Australia's biggest, toughest and most experienced superannuation funds. Australia's top 10 Millennial superannuation funds: Rainmaker Information The latest findings from Roy Morgan show that Millennials' ...

Retail MySuper outpacing NFP products

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
... funds of HOSTPLUS (9.4%), MTAA Superannuation (9.1%), StatewideSuper (9.1%), AustralianSuper (9%) and Cbus (9%) as the five top performers based on three-year returns. The top five life-stage products (varying by age cohort) for the 40-49 age bracket ...

YBR partners with top fintech

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
Yellow Brick Road has partnered with an Australian startup that made the top 100 list of the best fintechs globally. Executive chair Mark Bouris said Prospa, an online lender has loaned more than $500 million to small businesses, was chosen to broaden ...

ASIC widens conflicted adviser remuneration rules

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
... instances where "information is given on, or dealing occurs in, a life risk insurance product, even in the absence of advice." On top of this, RG 246 addresses the potential conflicts associated with conference benefits and commissions given by property ...

SMSFs continue rise

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... than $50,000. Average assets of an SMSF now exceed $1.1 million, with the average account balance per member about $600,000. Top asset types held by SMSFs by value are: listed shares 29%, cash and term deposits 23%, non-residential real property and ...

Salt reveals retirement hotspots

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... cities are downsizing to regional and seaside towns. Foster-Tuncurry, a coastal town 300 kilometres north of Sydney, is the top sea change hotspot for NSW retirees, with about 32%of the population over 65 and not in the labour force. In Victoria, Echuca-Moama ...

Austock Life revamps, hires new leaders

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... no limit on how much can be invested and no preservation age. Combined with a tax environment significantly less than the top marginal tax rate and the ability to borrow against the investment, bonds are an ideal long-term savings vehicle." The firm ...

Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... from netwealth's recent AdviceTech report show advisers identified robo-advice, managed accounts and scaled advice as the top three technologies that will have the biggest impact on advice practices in the next five years. "I've got a real issue with ...

Banks feeling heat as MiFID II looms: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... "they actually feel is value for money." He noted that historically 60 to 70% of research revenue has gone to the world's top six to 10 banks. "You can't really say they're provided the best-in-the-world products, though. It's just that they've controlled ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... composite PMI reading would remain at elevated levels. This is the view of "16,000 purchasing executives from 32 of the world's top economies, including the US, Japan, Germany, France and China which together account for over 85% of global GDP" as the ...