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Shorten reins in employer involvement in default super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... argument, saying that default contributions should be put into the "most secure and high performing funds possible so Australians can maximise their retirement savings." Not-for-profit funds (industry funds, public sector funds and corporate funds) ...

Premium Wealth creates accountant licensing program

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... accountants to give financial advice. "In my opinion this is the single best FOFA initiative because thousands of Australians go to see their accountants on a regular basis and sometimes they would like to ask some relatively straight forward questions ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... as a strong focus on the weak global economy in our current affairs." According to GWS findings around one in four Australians (26%) work in an organisation that has outsourced, restructured, grown, expanded or downsized jobs in the last 12 months. This ...

FPA to push advice via social media

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... Week. The move is part of a push by the FPA to increase the profile of financial advice and augment the number of Australians who access the advice service. The hub is a new multi-media consumer website which has been developed in conjunction with practitioner ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... the way it's going, just a wittle more and it'll be standing above the summit it reached back in 2007 (the time we, Australians, thought of the GFC to mean Geelong Football Club). At the close of last week's trading, the S&P 500 stood just 9.4% away ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... March quarter. The data look benign enough -- they're neither here nor there... but wait till you read the headlines: Australians' Confidence Wanes, Wages Gain in Conundrum: Economy (Bloomberg) Consumer sentiment depressed in August, says Westpac (The ...

Super loyalty defies low return expectations

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... their expectations. According to CoreData's survey of super fund members from all sectors in July, only two-in-five Australians expect their super fund to deliver positive returns from the last financial year. One-in-five (21%) members surveyed expect ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... the less news we hear about Europe the brighter everyone's mood gets. Well, almost everyone... for it seems that we, Australians all, can't seem to see a good thing even if you put a blinking neon sign on the word "lucky" and dangle it right in front ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... the RBA looks at the whole macro picture and it sees a bright one. Think Mr. Stevens will back me up on this one. Australians have every reason to feel gloomy looking at our Olympics medal tally - but definitely not with the way our economy is tracking. ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... fund's investment decisions. "There are currently $225 million of tax payer dollars invested in a product that kills 40 Australians each day, and yet the Government has failed to act," Di Natale said in May. It was revealed in May that the Future Fund ...