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International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... is "an ambitious budget to tackle a yawning deficit, but also one that risks a voter backlash with tax increases and aggressive spending cuts at a time of rising unease over the economy," the WSJ said. The newspaper described the budget as a "shock treatment" ...

Managed accounts take-up jump 63%: survey

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... managed under SMSFs). However, recent developments suggest a seachange. Independent platform netwealth is making an aggressive push into the sector while two providers, OneVue and managedaccounts.com.au (previously IAS) are set to list. Even more telling ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lawyer James Wheeldon has revealed the regulator gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance ...

FEATURE: Facing the perfect storm

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... and so have income protection and disability claims, often by legal means. New products such as direct insurance and aggressive marketing campaigns on television and on the internet have only increased the frequency in which consumers change consumer ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... futures contract was down 58 points at 5,355. US President Barack Obama on Thursday said that if Russia continued an aggressive path in Ukraine, the US and other countries would be "forced to apply costs" to Moscow. The president made his remarks after ...

Retiree 4pct drawdown limits too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
New research released by the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) reveals that the standard 4% retirement income drawdown may be too high and inadvertently result in retirement funds running out too quickly. The research is detailed in ...

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Almost half the world's fund managers expect their institutional clients to adopt a more aggressive investment strategy in 2014, according to a global survey by Towers Watson. The survey, including responses from 128 investment managers (the majority ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
The Australian market has opened flat after already adjusting to the news of unrest in Ukraine. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said the local market was the first to move on Monday to news that Ukraine was on the brink of war with Russia ...

Credit Suisse goes "wild" in its 2014 outlook

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... post float high." "A rally in the Aussie to new highs may occur if the Fed stops tapering and embarks on an even more aggressive round of QE all while the RBA adopts a tightening bias instead of easing. Stronger Chinese growth will also help supporting ...

Banks need top line growth after SMSF-led run

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... still at historic lows." The second half of 2013 what Will Hamilton of Hamilton Wealth Management called an "incredibly aggressive run on the big four. "I just couldn't believe how the banks had run as they did in the second half of the year," Hamilton ...