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Salt reveals retirement hotspots

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... he said. "That is a lot of money that can be used to pay off a mortgage or fund a better retirement lifestyle." Related story: Retirement needs higher purpose: ASFA CEO A study commissioned by industry super fund REST earlier this year showed that Australians ...

Cbus expands senior investment team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... Investment Management. He will be responsible for undertaking company and sector research across Australian equities. Related story: Cbus Industry super fund hires change expert Cbus chief investment officer Kristian Fok said the fund is pleased to be ...

Government superannuation reforms shelved

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... their bid to defeat increased transparency and accountability in the sector. One can only wonder why," she said. Related story: Government superannuation bills will stand despite Royal Commission: O'Dwyer It remains unclear whether the bills will be ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... Wednesday when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases the September quarter figures. Sure these numbers tell the story of synchronised accelerating growth of three months ago but present indications are that these persists and even stronger. ...

ASFA disappointed in Royal Commission scope

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... services industry must be able to stand up to scrutiny. That is what Australians expect, and rightly so," O'Dwyer said. Related story: Government caves to banking Royal Commission Under the current Royal Commission terms of reference, the use by a financial ...

US firm hires QIC analyst in Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
A Silicon Valley-based firm co-founded by a former QIC chief strategist has recruited a new head of quantitative modelling. David Priest joins Jacobi Strategies from QIC, where he was a quantitative strategist. Prior to that, he was a quantitative analyst ...

Superannuation fears regulatory strangle: ASFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... would have returned $1.67 at June 2017. Comparatively, the average superannuation fund would have returned $1.64. Related story: No future in high indirect cost ratios "Some wild and radical ideas need to be vigorously contested," Easson said. "Scores ...

Advisers require entrepreneurial hat

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... successful and sustainable practices were built when they began to see themselves not only as advisers but astute entrepreneurs. Story Wealth Management chief executive Anne Graham urged practice owners at the 2017 Financial Planning Association Professionals ...

Financial Standard journalist recognised in press awards

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... news stories: a profile piece on Peter Ma Mingzhe, the chairman and chief executive of China's Ping An Insurance; and a story on the views of several institutional investors about the rise of retail giant Alibaba. Cheng scooped this year's awards, also ...

SSGA dismisses ETF bubble concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... lack of education broadly - it's a tool available to investors, and no disrespect to any member of the media, but often the story being told is an incomplete one, and we have to fill in some of the gaps with our end-clients."