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Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... outright majority! And Donald is just two days away from becoming President Trump (maybe?). Remember Murphy's Law - if anything could go wrong, it will. While it still looks like a coin toss two-days before the US Presidential contest, the "game" according ...

Industry backs mental health education campaign PROP

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... there is a gathering at The Basement in Circular Quay on Wednesday, 15th of November featuring the iconic band Mental As Anything plus guest speakers. To date, more than 200 financial services professionals across superannuation, insurance and wealth ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... "emailgate" so very, very close to the Presidential elections? Rising yields on US 10-year Treasuries? 'twas Murphy's Law - if anything can go wrong, it will - at its best for Mrs. Clinton. Just when it looks like she's just counting the days when she'll ...

Poll provides fresh defence against Royal Commission

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... they understand that it can't impose fines on banks or force banks to pay compensation, and it can't change laws or do anything other than make recommendations which the government of the day is not bound to implement. "Of those who believe banks need ...

Magellan flags risk plan for Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
Magellan chairman Brett Cairns has publically addressed the risk of anything happening to "key man" Hamish Douglass, reassuring investors that a plan of succession is in place. Addressing shareholders at the investment firm's annual general meeting ...

Mercer appoints commercialisation director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... Mercer senior partner David Knox described how when the Lifetime Plus product was debuted to ASIC, "they'd never seen anything like it." "I think it's fair to say account-based pensions are popular in Australia, so we fitted it into that structure but ...

A new narrative for diversification: Western Asset

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... adviser access to a whole new world of fixed income. "We don't have to go crazy looking at bonds in certain ways, if anything unconstrained trading means liberating or opening up the investment universe in fixed income, picking those best stories we ...

Retirement income opportunities begin early

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... contributions or for your spouse to make contributions to take advantage of the tax concessions and encourage that because anything you can do to reduce the gap in contributions will have a significant impact in the long term." For more information on ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... negatively affecting economic activity," Mr. Kuroda said." The ECB and the BOJ - and even the RBA - may not have to do anything, if the Fed does something come the 'twenty-first night of September". That something, of course, is lifting the US fed funds ...

Super investment poorly communicated

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... invested is still a mystery to most Australians - to me this is the great challenge to overcome. There is no way I can know anything more about investing than those of you in the room. But this is not the case with many Australians. They believe they ...