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Spring FG promotes two execs to state manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... Queensland. Prior to joining the company, Vadamootoo was in tertiary and post-graduate education for the best part of a decade. "Having been a founding member of our Queensland advisory team, and more recently state manager - Queensland, he [Vadamootoo] ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Mavis Robertson, one of the pioneers of the Australian superannuation sector, has died. Robertson's career spanned more than six decades in the union movement and then in superannuation as fund secretary of BUS (Building Unions Superannuation) and AUST ...

OPINION: The Achilles heel of unbundled services

DARREN SPEIRS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... service providers currently interact stands to jeopardise the very qualities that make them so attractive. Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Australians have flocked to the SMSF space, away from super funds and wrap platforms that were perceived ...

Challenger retail annuity sales up 8%, profit down

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... preservation, as reflected in the size of our average annuity sale, which has grown from $80,000 to $200,000 over the last decade." Benari noted that "a trend to longer-term guaranteed 'income layering' has also become more evident among retirement-focused ...

AMP Capital joins retirement education portal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
AMP Capital has become the sixth asset manager to join the Lonsec Retire Industry Panel, an online portal designed to help planners give better retirement advice to their clients. The website, www.lonsecretire.com.au, already has the support of NAB ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... stat released overnight shows that the rallying US dollar - the US dollar index is now at its highest level in just over a decade, up by 21.1% in 52 weeks - is taking its toll on America. "The Strong Dollar Just Took a Bite Out of the US Economy" was ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
And an easing here, an easing there, everywhere an easing... Just a day after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) joined the central bank surprise club and decided to ooh, ahh, "have what they're having", and two days after I typed on this space "and ...

401(k) plans to reach $6trn by 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. "Our projections indicate that, by the end of the decade, total private DC assets will approach $6.5 trillion, the majority of which will be in 401(k) plans," states Jessica Sclafani ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
Another year, another disappointment. I must be really getting ancient becasue I can't recall exactly when it all started - 2010 or 2011? - but year after year after year, "experts" have been predicting a hard landing in China's economy. That "hard ...

REI Super extends Ibbotson consultancy mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... and portfolio construction enables us to help REI Super members achieve their retirement objectives." The deal extends a decade long partnership between the two companies. REI Super chief executive Mal Smith commented: "Ibbotson has worked closely with ...