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Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... savings pool that is now 110% of the nation's GDP. "The first pillar is the basic wage, the second is the age pension, the third is Medicare and superannuation is now the fourth. I believe the National Disability Insurance Scheme will become the fifth," ...

H2O scores Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... budget and allocate risk and monitor it in near real time so you know the risk you are holding and investing in." This is the third mandate Apostle has delivered this year to H2O, including a $270 million Colonial First State's First Choice multi-manager ...

Third Link appoints inaugural head of distribution

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Third Link Investment Managers has created a head of distribution role to assist with the firm's growth strategy. Vinnie Wadhera has been appointed as head of distribution for Third Link and will manage relationships between financial intermediary channels ...

HOSTPLUS, IOOF allocate mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... million emerging markets equity mandate while IOOF has awarded the firm $200 million in global equities. This is the group's third major mandate since being licensed, receiving a $100 million Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandate in April from Colonial ...

Investment manager goes mobile

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... application and said, "A mobile website does not care what brand of phone you have, it does not force you to deal with a third party to source our content."

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... wrong - no need to throw it back at my face. I expected the US Federal Reserve to provide a circuit breaker in the form of a third QE. I was wrong! Big Ben did this small Ben one better. B-I-N-G-O! By just changing a single phrase in the policy statement ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issues data on housing finance in June. In equities news, National Australia Bank Ltd releases its third quarter trading update. Cochlear Ltd and Bradken Ltd issue full year results, and Coca Cola Amatil Ltd and Reckon Ltd ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... division - put the risk of a new economic contraction at between 20% and 40%. Madigan and Kohn said the Fed should consider a third round of bond purchases only if inflation slows from recent elevated levels and if the economy continues to underperform." ...

Now for the denominator

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... the economy 3-6 months ahead of time. The message from the latest ISM reading: US growth would remain lacklustre in the third quarter. Now we'll just have to wait for another ugly US employment number to be released on Friday night and the stage will ...

ASIC looks to reshape retail advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... Financial Service licensees including accountants, superannuation trustees and financial planners. ASIC said it found one-third of Australians now prefer scalable advice and as such the regulator has released a consultation paper to provide guidance ...