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Not too late to maximise super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... the notional earnings component of that amount; and there'll be a tax penalty on those notional earnings of 15%." It's not big dollars, Lewis said, but it is not something clients want to be faced with.

Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... arrangement be established, leading to effective price discovery and transparency in wholesale agricultural markets and neutralise big supermarket and international subsidy impacts. ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said with the right expertise and ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
With the prices of Australia's major commodity exports - coal and iron ore -- trending lower this year, let's all spend a minute silence and pray that yesterday's report of a massive slump in exports - down 8.0% in the month of April - was indeed an ...

BetaShares launches defensive ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... 2.87% per annum (excluding fees). About 80% of investments are allocated to senior floating rate debt securities issued by the big four banks, with the remainder in regional banks such as Macquarie, AMP, Bank of Queensland, and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

Super funds not future ready: Mercer

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... should look at the opportunities and cost-benefits of strategic member growth and retention plans, though Mercer notes the big challenge will be how to invest in growth and retention while maintaining brand, connection with members, and trusteeship without ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... increase in inventories in the March quarter is unwanted. Unless domestic consumption picks up strongly in the coming months - a big question mark given weak growth in wages, companies would run down these inventories in succeeding quarters (and therefore ...

New cash ETF for UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... invest in short to medium-term discount securities ranging from bank bills to certificate of deposits, with a 60% skew to the big four banks, Anderson said. Head of UBS Asset Management for Australia and New Zealand Bryce Doherty said a typical superannuation ...

Distribution reshapes globalisation: Capital Group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... countries in the world. "Yet these [social media] companies are still at an early stage at figuring out how they'll take these big user bases and turn them in to profits for their shareholders," Budden said. Any way you look at it, these platforms and ...

Super funds must do more digitally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
Digital advice is seen as a must by 80% of superannuation funds, yet less than 20% have engaged in or are looking to implement digital advice. A majority of super funds have only begun investing in online strategies in the last three years. New findings ...