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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 ...

MySuper insurance widely misunderstood

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... underwriting, so we know very little about the actual members and so we insure millions of Australian's without actually knowing anything about them. I don't think that the information we request at claims time is any more intrusive than what we ask ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
... latest survey of around 150 UK retail and wholesale firms conducted by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is anything to go by, the rise in retail spending in July - up 1.4% month on month - should persist over the coming months. The CBI Distributive ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Australia consumer inflationary expectations If it's anything to go by, the latest result from the Melbourne Institute's survey of consumer inflationary expectations, along with the resurgence in the Australian dollar, would strengthen speculation for ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... asset purchases of €80 billion are intended to run until the end of March 2017 "or beyond". The decision not to do anything is not because the ECB isn't itching to race - "...the Governing Council will act by using all instruments available within ...

Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... just think we're getting to the point where some people are stepping back and thinking 'oh this is actually not doing anything and certainly not helping the whole community or helping people and improving incomes'. "We're not really getting the growth ...