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Turnbull on super and housing debate: "a thoroughly bad idea"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... that some argue that buyers get capital gain from home ownership and that "capital gain may well be far greater than anything they get on their return in existing superannuation funds."

Succession planning major issue for advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... not operate without them!" "Obviously, even if the average age of the owners was 35 it would still be an issue, because anything can happen to anyone, but when you overlay that over the fact that they're now almost 59... And it's getting older. Each ...

FEATURE: Understanding mFund

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... funds was a paper based process," he explains. "Investors would have to fill out an application form which could contain anything up to 20 pages of notes. It was quite an arduous task which turned most people off." For the full story, download the 27 ...

MetLife US proactive lobbying lesson for Aust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... by depositors, insurance is very different because its risks and asset profile is long term and so the likelihood of anything like a depositor 'run' is very remote. A better alternative, argued MetLife, is for Congress to pass the Insurance Capital Standards ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... more capital. "Central banks have increased their allocation to Aussie dollars over the years on the basis that it's anything but US dollars or euros. Plus it's a triple A story with some yield, with linkages to the Asian growth story. Those guys are ...

Perennial Australian equity trust rated by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... protection for investors and the advisers who guide them. The fund's unique design and underlying protection process is unlike anything available to Australian retail investors to date," Perennial head of retail funds management Brian Thomas said. In ...

Cbus delivered last blow before RC interim report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... "overstated her involvement" in the leak, Stoljar said: "What does 'overstate her involvement' mean? Ms Butera denied having anything to do with the leak, in the face of evidence which plainly demonstrated that denial to be false. Is the submission now ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... "benignly collapse" to at the end of next year. To be fair, a year is a long, long, long, long time in currency markets - anything can still happen. Still, with only the US mid-2015 rate lift-off remaining the only "if" that needs to be satisfied, Adam's ...

Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... were unambiguously bad for consumers, an argument dismissed by Senator Cormann. "Don't let anybody think that this has anything to do about the best interests of consumers," Senator Cormann told the Senate. Instead it was more about the commercial interest ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... corporate or economic news to drive the market all week. "This is the first week that I can recall where there's been hardly anything in the nature of economic or corporate data coming out either in Australia or the US," Mr Heffernan said. "So the only ...