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Fixed income, smart beta need better access

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... for alpha, and investors who can find a manager generating alpha should be willing to pay for it. He added generally Australians have not had great access to fixed income. "The ETF market has a long way to go in Australia. You have new issuers coming ...

Lost super campaigns have much further to go

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... billion missing across some 378,000 accounts. The research was conducted by Lonergan Research which surveyed 1,030 Australians aged 18 years and over who have ever worked, between 27 and 31 May 2016. The data was weighted to the latest population estimates ...

Indigenous super event expands to Melbourne

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... Melbourne for the first time. The Big Super Day out is a free Indigenous community event designed to encourage First Australians to think about their future and plan for their retirement. Superannuation experts will be on hand to give attendees advice ...

Lifeplan portal puts investors first

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... digital experience and mobile functionality. Commenting on the launch, head of Lifeplan, Matt Walsh said: "Increasingly Australians are conducting their financial affairs over their mobile phones, and it is paramount that any online initiative adopts ...

New wave of retirees to challenge advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... utilise the "dormant wealth" locked up in family homes. "For many years it has been very obvious that a great number of Australians approaching or currently in retirement will have to use their family home in some form to assist them address a myriad ...

Consumers turning to the internet for advice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... Ratings report found that almost 50% of Australian's would be happy to buy life insurance online and one third of Australians are already using the internet to research their insurance options. "The life insurance buying process is being heavily disrupted ...

Advisers must adapt to millennial habits

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... to have advice from Siri or Google compared to having it from a financial planner or adviser. "About two in three Australians don't have any professional financial advice in their lives, so digital advice, I believe, is the opportunity to unlock that ...

Sentiment recovers but cash still king

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
The sentiment of mass affluent Australians has recovered in Q2 2016 amid renewed optimism for the economy and business but remains in negative territory, according to CoreData's latest quarterly Investor Sentiment Report. The uptick in the Investor ...

Suncorp rolls out online only super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Suncorp Bank app. We'll be bringing this to market later this year," Diuncan said. Suncorp's own research found 44% of Australians not interested in super would be more engaged if their super account operated more like a bank account. "Being an online ...

Lack of ownership costing Australians in retirement

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016