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UK to introduce lifetime ISAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
The UK government has just announced in its 2016 budget that it will be launching subsidised Lifetime Individual Savings Accounts that will allow people under 40 to save for their first home and retirement. The initiative follows a raft of other measures ...

Risk sales were flat in 2015

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
Overall life/risk insurance product sales were flat throughout 2015, according to DEXX&R research. DEXX&R's Life Analysis Report is based on the data provided for all business from Australian life insurance companies, and reveals that individual sales ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
There was very little financial market reaction to China's latest data dump. This could be because the stats only confirmed what markets already know - i.e., China's economy is slowing - or they've discounted the disappointing numbers as due to seasonal ...

We've got the power and firepower (still)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
Despite deteriorating market confidence and doubts over central banks' firepower and ability to influence market moods and outcomes, the events of the past week showed that CBs are anything but powerless. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's (RNBZ) unexpected ...

Australia and UK to shape retirement landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
A global pension expert believes both Australia and the UK will play a major role in driving future ingenuity and innovation for retirement markets across the world. On the eve of attending the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Adelaide ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
Well he tried, and he tried, and he tried but he can't get no satisfaction, oh no, no. no. For all intents and purposes, ECB President Mario Draghi over-delivered on the eagerly-awaited stimulus promised two months ago. He came in firing not with one... ...

Confused environment leads to Aussie stock volatility

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
A confused global macroeconomic environment, combined with a dominant passive style of investment management, explains volatile Australian stock prices during the reporting season. This is the view of Avoca Investment Management portfolio manager John ...

Govt announces superannuation's objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
The government has released a discussion paper outlining the formal objective of Australia's superannuation system that it proposes to enshrine in legislation. The words the government is proposing are the same as those recommended by the Financial ...

Advisers looking for longevity and aged care solutions

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
Aged care and longevity risk in retirement planning are becoming key concerns for financial advisers, as demonstrated by the first Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum. Challenger head of technical services Andrew Lowe spoke first ...

PATRON founder Rob McCann to retire

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
Infocus Wealth Management has announced that PATRON Financial Advice general manager, Rob McCann, will retire in April. The 44-year industry veteran started PATRON Financial Advice nine years ago with leading adviser David Hasib. After seeing through ...