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Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... weak. "We wouldn't be outright bearish on the Aussie economy," he said, "we just think there are probably more interesting places to invest. But that yield should support the market at around these sorts of levels. And when interest rates are low, the ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... interests duties for financial advisers this redefines the problem by taking it out of the hands of street level advisers and places it directly on the institution's lap - which may ironically reinforce rather than weaken the need for vertically integrated ...

Phone usage reveals opportunity for financial services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... financial services providers to improve mobile offerings. The inaugural Deloitte Australian survey of 2,000 mobile consumers places Australia as the fifth most concentrated smartphone market in the world after Singapore, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Part ...

IFM has 'concerns' over infra prices

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... rather than UK pension funds." In consequence of these high prices, he said IFM Investors is having to look in different places for its new infrastructure acquisitions. "We look for assets that perhaps are not so fashionable, not so high profile," he ...

Sydney set to become China share trading hub

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... people in Sydney don't even need to get out of bed early. "If I was a regional firm with operations centres in multiple places in Asia I'd probably put this processing in Sydney because time zone-wise, just for once, it's actually an advantage rather ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... funds fall down the list compared to last year. AustralianSuper and UniSuper were the two exceptions, jumping seven and two places respectively. The highest placed Australian fund was the Future Fund, at 31, followed by AustralianSuper at 47 and QSuper ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... acknowledged that "vertical integration can result in conflicts," but noted that the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform "places a number of obligations on advisers and product providers, most notably the duty on financial advisers to act in the ...

FSC report warns of default super 'turmoil'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... their business banking relationships. "Of course, this A creates a conflicts of interest for employers, and in doing so places the super nest eggs of Australians at risk of underperforming bank-owned super funds," Whiteley said. The review process was ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... while BT and MLC were joint tenth. AMP, Mercer, HOSTPLUS, Sunsuper and Tasplan were at the bottom of the list of 25 funds (places 21 to 25 respectively). The survey asked respondents one question: "In general, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... while BT and MLC were joint tenth. AMP, Mercer, HOSTPLUS, Sunsuper and Tasplan were at the bottom of the list of 25 funds (places 21 to 25 respectively). The survey asked respondents one question: "In general, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with ...