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The $500k price tag on bad super choices

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... the market, the good news for consumers is they don't need to wait. Switching to one of Australia's best funds is easy and consumers can do it today. "But first they should check how their super fund is performing against industry averages across ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... conflict, slowing growth in the global economy, particularly in China - Australia's biggest trading partner - and it would be easy for the RBA to justify a rate cut and soon - more so now that the Fed has paused its policy normalisation policy that ...

Robo-adviser launches high interest savings solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... mattress. A high interest option is the most requested product feature by Stockspot clients, he added. "There aren't simple, easy to use options for savers that avoid onerous monthly conditions. Meanwhile most stock brokers, super funds and investment ...

Rest launches low-cost indexed options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... proud to continue," it said. All members can access the new options. "Rest's new indexed investment options provide an easy solution for members looking to add a low-cost option to their portfolio, but without the same diversification across asset ...

Xinja funds platform for growth

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... across 17 countries daily. Wilson attributes this success to Xinja's digital foundation. "We're all about making banking easy. We're about banking technology that more closely resembles what people expect from innovators and disruptors, like Netflix ...

Engagement should be easier: Productivity Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... "harder than it ought to be" for members of superannuation funds, with over complex products, oft-changing rules, and a lack of easy-to-understand information all in the firing line. The report said competition in superannuation was affected by regular ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... sustainability or ESG issues Strengthened policy design as unclear drafting that isn't explicit means sustainability is often easy to disregard in the investment process Improved monitoring and supervision of investors' ESG integration practices Ausbil ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... inflation index." Pearce also said the inflation-linked returns requirement for CIPRs may not always work out. "It's very easy to implement any one or two facets of [the] product but it's nearly impossible to implement them all. So you [can] ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... US central bank being data dependent? The recent data on inflation, inflation expectations and the yield curve says...so easy-ier. As an aside, for the life of me I still couldn't understand why the Fed's reveal about being "data-dependent" became ...

New initiatives ready advisers for the future

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... get your house in order and take a more proactive approach to compliance." The initiative will also provide advisers with easy to understand, curated content outlining recent regulatory changes and other major events in the advice sector, building on ...