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MyPension product to solve retirement income hurdle

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... retirement income for retirees. "There are $430 billion worth of superannuation savings sitting in [MySuper] products where pretty much everything is done for you. Then at retirement all of a sudden you've got to make all these very complex decisions ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... manufacturing companies to fish and chip stores before happening upon a book catalogue delivery service in Perth. "It was pretty easy work," he says, "but one Friday they said we were going to do something different for some extra cash." Suspicious but ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... portfolio? To do that, you need to figure out what's your asset allocation and how should you de-risk. A lot of problems are pretty similar. It's the amplitude that changes," he says. Investors often will come to ISG with a preconceived idea of what ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... billion ($96 billion) bailout for Greece. Two to go. When the ECB was discussing China back in the middle of July, I'm pretty sure they were concerned about the sharp volatility prompted by the mayhem in the Middle Kingdom's stock markets. That calmed ...

Difficult year for insurance income: CBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... experience and a decline in new business. Narev said in terms of the decline in new business the bank was competing "in a pretty competitive market." "There are all sorts of product and channel factors - some of this is because there are parts of the ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... want to be bigger. Each one is fighting for its vested interests and it has made the arguments put forward by all sides pretty weak," he said during an entertaining break-out session at the FSC Conference. "The people that claim for-profit is bad have ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... to nine months... probably as low as US65Ac by the end of the year". Adding that, this is "a helpful bearishness". I am pretty sure that Gov Glenn thinks as much and could maintain the downward pressure on the dollar-A by simply maintaining the line ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... maybe America's NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) has also gone down from the estimated 5.0%. I'm pretty sure the Fed will address this at the "Hole" when it talks about "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" on 27-29 August. ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... investors will get less and enjoy the ride worse," he said. "The only bright spot in our economy is housing and that story is pretty mature now. Australia has to get used to GDP growth with a two in front of it rather than with a three in front of it." ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... wealth management space by downsizing M&A teams and wrapping up dealer groups, as AMP did with Genesys. "I think it's a pretty strong reflection of their diminished level of appetite for the sector," he said. Advice scandals, he continued, have also ...