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Super decades away from maturity

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
The maturity of Australia's superannuation system is under scrutiny and industry representatives have weighed in on how super will progress from its relatively successful childhood. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle on Friday, BT Financial ...

Super and pension work together

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Common misunderstandings about the interplay between superannuation and the age pension are driving public uncertainty about Australia's retirement income system. This is the conclusion of the Super Reality Check report developed by Vidler Policy and ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Custodians are a vital organ for super funds and asset managers. Darren Snyder explores the trillion-dollar industry. The $2.6 trillion Australian custody market has been highly active during the past 18 months and continues to be watched as several ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... increase. With 10% of the labour pool unemployed, they are the lucky ones. And so we come to the slack that Janet's been talkin' 'bout. With the unemployment rate at 5.3%, that slack should have narrowed - big time - at worst. At current unemployment ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... the Fed statement... except for a few tweaks, here... and there. Aha! But it's the tweaks in semantics that people are talkin' 'bout. "That language and other small changes in the statement mark an upgrade in the central bank's view of labor conditions ...

Advisers need to collaborate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
The financial advice industry depends on collaboration between planners, according to Complete Financial Balance principal Brendan Cox. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney, Cox - whose company won the 2014 ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... could re-start another round of these surprises. Well, it won't be a surprise now that we're expecting them, would it? Talkin' 'bout expectations, financial markets appear to be disappointed that China's economy grew by 7% in the second quarter, not ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday..." -- Spiral Staircase But would it be "...as much as tomorrow"? That's the musical version of "is this a dead cat bounce?" Yes Virginia, I refer to the Shanghai Composite Index which tumbled 5.9% one-day and ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... Yes Virginia, it's the same movie we've gone tired of watching. Still, it won't hurt to use protection... just in case. Talkin' 'bout protection, today's headlines are filled with stories about how the rapid fire of protection measures implemented by ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... was 4.1% and debt grew to 62.9%; Italy's deficit was at 3.5% and debt 105.7%. Well... they made their bed. Everybody's talkin' 'bout the dire consequences for Greece of a Grexit but I don't see how things can be worse than they are and have been over ...