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Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

Bill Gross donates $867m to charity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Bond king Bill Gross has jumped straight into the list of the world's most generous philanthropists after giving US$700 million ($867 million) to charity. Gross told Bloomberg Television that he is planning to donate the remaining of his fortune, estimated ...

New initiative to improve women's economic health

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced a partnership with not-for-profit 10thousandgirl in a bid to improve the financial literacy and economic health of women in regional areas. The partnership will see the FPA play an ...

No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Superannuation representative groups have backed the federal government's decision to leave new taxes on super out of the 2015 budget but say there is further consultation ahead. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
As Australia's extraordinary mining boom peters out, the Government is finally getting behind financial services exports and will invest $6 billion in free trade agreements (FTA) in Asia. "If we could lift our service exports like higher education ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
In the absence of an increase in the superannuation guarantee, industry representative groups agree Australians will need to put more money in to their super accounts after changes to the Age Pension were announced in the federal budget. Most changes ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Tempo Asset Management joined the ranks of global equities managers who are forecasting the end of the United States bull market. The third largest bull market in the US history has delivered "a remarkable performance but it's also very unusual," Tempo ...

PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Principal Global Investors (PGI) chief executive Grant Forster's first job at a Woolworths supermarket was hard work. He remembers long eight-hour shifts packing fridges, stacking shelves and assisting customers. "It taught me it was an area I didn't ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
The major banks have clawed back some losses, but continue to weigh on the broader share market. Investors are now absorbing news that the official jobless rate has risen to 6.2 per cent in April from 6.1 per cent in March. The unemployment rate is ...

Terminally ill granted early access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
People suffering a terminal illness will be granted early access to their superannuation savings if they have less than two years to live. The government will amend the provision for early access to superannuation in such cases, following consultation ...