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New cash ETF for UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... income Anne Anderson told a media roundtable. While investors are lucky to receive a 0.20% return on term deposits - or if anything at all, they'd be penalised additionally should they decide to access their money, she added. The AQUA-listed cash ETF ...

Australians failing to act on increased retirement cost

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... decade has led to a rise in the amount required for a comfortable retirement, HSBC believes Australians are unlikely to do anything about ensuring they achieve it. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's Retirement Standard, which tracks ...

Advice industry must not rest on laurels: Diamantidis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... surrounded by guilt and procrastination, and so everything we're doing is associated with guilt and procrastination and, if anything, it's an afterthought," Diamantidis said. She implored advisers to say no to being part of the 'shoulds' and to work ...

Insurance giant partners to combine life and health

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... of insurance offering - one that will bring together health insurance, life insurance and wellbeing: there hasn't been anything like this available on the market in Australia before. Through this new alliance we are delighted to be providing GMHBA members ...

Budget for the wealthy: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Opposition leader Bill Shorten is rejecting claims Treasurer Scott Morrison's 2017-18 Budget is anything like a 'Labor Budget.' Shorten went on Twitter to say the Coalition's budget is "out of touch", as a Labor Budget wouldn't slash school funding ...

Government fintech agenda spotlights microbanking

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... with superannuation funds would navigate the "huge systems issues" certain Budget measures will create. "Putting aside anything else, I think a whole range of superannuation service providers will be faced with a reasonable amount of costs to create ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... Eslake suggests there is no evidence at all to support the notion that preferentially taxing small businesses will do anything to boost "jobs and growth". "Over the five years to June 2015, small businesses (those with fewer than 20 employees) employed ...

SMSF rollovers hit $8 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... Fund, ANZ's OnePath Masterfund and the Mercer Super Trust. Rainmaker notes the outflow distribution between funds was anything but uniform. There were five funds seeing more than 3.5% of net assets rolled over to SMSFs in the year. "At the beginning ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... in as chief executive of America, Inc. "Donald, you're fired!" should be what Americans tell him if poll ratings are anything to go by. In her piece on al.com, Leada Gore wrote: "A recently released CNN/ORC poll shows Trump has the lowest approval rating ...

Opposition floats SMSF borrowing ban

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... problem," Cormann said. "If you have a concern about housing affordability, if you have a concern about the affordability of anything, the way to address it, overwhelmingly, is by increasing supply and overwhelmingly that is going to be the area that ...