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Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Angela Mentis, said leading businesses of the future will be those who are confident, optimistic and innovative. "It's no surprise that necessity is truly the mother of invention: industries that are under the most pressure are innovating more than other ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... economy. Expect further weakness in Beijing's foreign purchases of goods and services as the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) surprise devaluation of the yuan last month makes the price of "made in other countries" dearer. Similarly, lower export growth ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
The days of CPI plus 5% investment returns for superannuation funds are gone for the foreseeable future according to a United Kingdom based researcher. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... sensationalised headlines aren't surprising. What's surprising is that financial markets reacted as if the result was a surprise - it wasn't. The official China PMI reading of 49.7 for August was exactly as markets expected. Besides the slowing Chinese ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... grateful for." Wade was soon encouraged into a Diploma of Superannuation Management and quickly discovered, much to her own surprise, that she had a real knack for super. Before the super journey began Wade graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Applied ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... mandates also suffered from performance. In a letter included in the results, managing director Kerr Neilson expressed "surprise" at investors' "seeming unwillingness to lay off their exposure and have more investment in assets abroad" as Australia's ...

Industry fund encourages members to claim insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
An industry superannuation fund has started an online campaign to help explain to its members how to claim on their group insurance policies. Energy Super has posted a short YouTube video in which an eight year old named Pete talks about how his father ...

Insurance literacy on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
More Australians are considering the features and benefits of life insurance policies as well as cost, according to research by TAL and policy comparison service Lifebroker. Lifebroker's data shows that while 44% of users rely on basic price comparisons ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... the mayhem in the Middle Kingdom's stock markets. That calmed but was replaced by the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) surprise devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (when the ECB meeting minutes were released) last week. "...financial ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... for a devaluation trifecta - 1.9% Tuesday, 1.2% Wednesday and 1.1% Thursday. If financial markets panicked on the first surprise devaluation announcement - because of "China hard landing"; "currency war"; "deflation pressure"; "commodity price plunges ...