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AustralianSuper posts annual investment results

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
Australia's largest superannuation fund, with more than $120 billion under management, has returned double digit returns for balanced account members. After taxes and fees, the investment option returned 12.44% for the 2016-17 financial year. According ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

SMSF software demand surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
Super reforms have helped propel the demand for self-managed super fund software in the last financial year, according to Class Super. Class' SMSF market share surged to 24% from 19% year-on-year, hitting a record high of 140,000 client accounts in ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... gentle but consistent increase China's foreign exchange reserves - up for the fourth straight month to US$3.05 trillion in May - the Chinese currency and the stock market. The onshore yuan exchange rate to the US dollar has appreciated by 2.2% this year ...

Super trustees on notice over fund disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
Fifteen per cent of superannuation trustees needed improvement in the disclosure of information on super fund websites according to Australia's corporate regulator. ASIC recently wrote to 21 superannuation trustees who failed to meet "Transparency Information" ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
No one expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise or lower the official cash rate from its current 1.5% when its board met on the 4 July, but only a few expected the Australian central bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... two-and-a-half year high." Price pressures maybe "elevated" but inflation measures --- headline and core at 0.4% in the year to May - remain well below the BOJ's 2.0% inflation target.

TAL intensifies mental health strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
Life insurer TAL is expanding its mental health capabilities by creating a new executive role and partnering with an expert in the field. Glenn Baird has been appointed as head of mental health and will be responsible for driving TAL's mental health ...

Bennelong launches new fund, hires analyst

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
Bennelong Australian Equity Partners is launching a new fund, recruiting a member of the Ausbil micro-cap team to assist in its management. The new Bennelong Emerging Companies Fund will invest primarily in micro and small capitalisation stocks listed ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
Hawkish central bank speaks may have damped equity market sentiment in towards the dying days of June, but Australian equities less so - the All Ordinaries index outperformed (up 0.05% over the month) both developed market equities (down 3.17%) and ...