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Retirement savings gap to reshape Aussie workforce

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
Inadequate retirement savings will force more Australians to work past the average retirement age of 60, creating new challenges for planners when mapping out the right financial plan. According to a survey of more 1,200 people last October, a high ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
Investors will be wary of inflation and deflation risks, hedge funds will undergo closer scrutiny and ESG factors will take prominence - these are some of Mercer's investment trends predictions for Asia this year. Although the threat of sustained deflation ...

Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Towers Watson is set to design longevity strategies that best suit super funds and insurers - ahead of the three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The Australian share market was marginally lower at noon, showing resilience in the face of lower commodity prices and a weak offshore lead. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 13.1 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 4,886.5, while the broader ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The largest US pension fund responds to mounting concerns about the true nature of the pension fund-placement agent-fund manager relationship by revealing the details of more than 600 placement agent disclosures to the public. The disclosures - received ...

Perpetual Private Wealth boosts FUA to $8.5bn

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Perpetual caps the year with its third acquisition in private wealth, which takes the division's total funds under advice (FUA) to $8.5 billion. This week Perpetual bought Melbourne-based advisory firm Fordham Group for $35 million, a deal that is expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from Tuesday night's offshore trading session, with Wall Street closing lower while oil was higher and metals prices were mixed. At 0822 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from Monday night's offshore trading session. While Wall Street finished higher and metals prices were firmer, the price of crude oil was weaker. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
Many super fund trustees are supporting the idea of applying standardised risk labels to all their member investment choices, a move that will help fund members better understand the risk they take when switching from one option to the next. ASFA chief ...

Super up again to $1.2 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
Superannuation assets have climbed for the second consecutive quarter to reach $1.2 trillion, fuelled by the record returns recovery and stable contribution flows. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), superannuation assets ...