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Australians priced out of life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
More than two in five Australians cannot afford basic life insurance a survey suggests. The survey by TAL of 1260 people across Australia also found that 17% believe their health insurance provides the same sort of cover as life insurance. The survey ...

SPAA gives support to Council of Super Custodians

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has voiced support for the government's move to set up a Council of Super Custodians. Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten announced the creation of a Charter Group last ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... earnings of US companies operating offshore when their revenues are translated back into US dollars. Sound familiar to us Australians, ey? This should keep the Fed in play for a little while longer than most expect. Bloomberg refreshed screen shows A$ ...

No need for more super bureaucracy: Cormann

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
There was no need for more bureaucracy to protect Australian's superannuation savings, shadow minister for Financial Services Mathias Cormann has said in response to the government's announcement of a superannuation charter. Cormann was also critical ...

Social media may not be the best place to advertise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... what people do now." Barton referred to Deloitte's 2012 State of the Media Democracy Survey which found that 63% of Australians preferred to watch TV content (on any device) to any other form of entertainment. Online came a strong - and rising - second. ...

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... 2014/15; A$7.5 billion in 2015/16. We know what happened hence. He recanted in December of the same year and prepared us, Australians all, for a small deficit....and just over a fortnight ago, the Grattan Institute released a report predicting that Australian ...

Planners race to plug gap in aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... dilemma will only intensify and according to research by Rice Warner Actuaries for the Financial Services Council (FSC), Australians who live longer than current life expectancy rates will face and aggregate $1 trillion shortfall in retirement saving ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Image of financial advisers still low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... consumer survey rating the annual image of various professions and a large majority, 90% (unchanged in three years) of Australians aged 14 and over, rate nurses as the most ethical and honest profession. This is 19th year in a row since nurses were rated ...

Elana Rubin appointed MLC director

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
Former AustralianSuper chair Elana Rubin has been appointed as non-executive director to the board of National Wealth Management Holdings and will serve as MLC director as well as other related companies. Rubin will take up the board position on May ...