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Super lump sum myth debunked

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
Only 16.7% of superannuation assets are withdrawn as a lump sum when members hit retirement, recent analysis from Rice Warner shows. The actuarial firm analysed information from more than 10 million member records representing over $55 billion in assets ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
As expected, the Bank of England (BOE) decided to do nothing at its 9 April monetary policy meeting, stating that: "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
"Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday..." -Bonnie M. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray for the fantabulous Australian jobs report for March. It's a holi-holiday for the RBA in May. Well... maybe. 'twas a wonderful set of numbers. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

NAB fined $40m over British bank failings

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
National Australia Bank's British bank (Clydesdayle) recently received a record fine nearing $40 million for lying to the United Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service as well as adopting inappropriate complaint policies. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Sufferin' succotash! Now we're really in trouble. Australians all, let's not rejoice for the bad news is piling up on us... one after the other. There's slowing China - GDP decelerated to 7.0% in the first quarter from 7.4% in 2014 - and is pushing ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Industry Fund Services (IFS) and dealer group Infocus Wealth Management will provide full financial advice services to First Super members. Under the arrangement, Infocus' financial advisers based in Adelaide will travel to locations around South Australia ...

Future Generation fund adds more big names

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Future Generation Investment Company (FGX) has beefed up its board with the addition of four well-known industry figures. Paradice Asset Management founder David Paradice, Victor Smorgon Group chief financial officer David Leeton, Greenstone Partners' ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
There was fear and a lot of uncertainty - perhaps even the biblical gnashing of teeth - back then, back during the late years leading to the expiry of the United Kingdom's 99-lease on Hong Kong from China on 1 July 1997. In Wikipedia's words, "Many ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
"I love the fact that Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer ...