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Global investors missed turning point

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... technology coincides with changes in where products are being made, and where they are consumed. This also means the domicile of big companies is not as important as past decades. Insync says shrinking workforces mean lower GDP growth and with this the ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
So this is Christmas and what have you done (John Lennon)? No, it wasn't me, it was Donald! Thanks to the good tidings Santa Trump delivered (or talked of delivering) - infrastructure building and rebuilding, deregulation, tax reform. Ones that are ...

Two of the big four in ASIC spotlight

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
ASIC accepted enforceable undertakings from National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia following an investigation by the corporate regulator. The undertakings relate to the banks' wholesale spot foreign exchange businesses. ASIC determined ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
1. AustralianSuper merges investment options In January AustralianSuper closed three investment options and replaced them with two as part of a streamlining process aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super ...

Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... been embroiled in one scandal after another and as it struggles to meet both shareholder and customer demands, a number of big players are re-evaluating their commitment to wealth management. Unlike many international counterparts, Australian banks have ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
Beam me up Scotty! That's the underlying message from Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget update where the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report showed the budget deficit beamed up by a cumulative A$10.3 billion over the ...

Life insurers complacent on Big Data

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
The lack of urgency displayed by life insurers in relation to adopting Big Data is unsustainable, a new report suggests. The MLC/Financial Services Council Big Data in Life Insurance report is based on data analysis and in-depth interviews with C-suite ...

Super tax receipts to reach $8bn: MYEFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
The biggest changes to superannuation in a decade will cost the Federal Government $130 million in revenue but improve its underlying cash balance by about $3 billion out to 2020. These figures formed part of the government's Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal ...

Industry fund seeks volatility overlay mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
Volatility specialists Triple3 were recently awarded an equity overlay mandate from an industry super fund seeking further downside protection in its international equities portfolio. The mandate provides an equity risk mitigation strategy to about ...

Non-aligned advisers gifted growth opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... accounts to allow for more client-facing time. "Back in 2012 when I was commercialising the business and wanting to be a "big CEO", that was all fun and games but the profitability just dried up. We lost control and it got to a point where I was asking ...