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Only half Britons saving enough for retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013

Investment strategy differences derail super merger talks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
The abandonment of merger talks between industry funds VicSuper and Vision Super came down to a disagreement about investment strategy, both parties told the Financial Standard. VicSuper Chief Executive Michael Dundon and Vision Super acting Chief executive ...

Yellow Brick Road launches super fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... executive chairman Mark Bouris. He said that taking control of savings, and having access to good advice along the way is a basic right that many people have been deprived of. "Australians have two big financial goals in life, to own their own home and ...

Planners must advise people, not portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... satisfaction with fee arrangements at 8.2, while other advisers' clients rated it at 7.8. "Technical skills are a must, they are a basic expectation that clients have, but what's really important are interpersonal skills," AFA chief executive Brad Fox ...

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...

netwealth's advice group moves advice ops

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... Freedom of Financial Advice (FoFA) friendly Super and Wealth Accelerator products which were launched in October 2012. The basic netwealth Wealth Acelerator product gives investors access to three term deposit providers, as well as cash options and 11 ...

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 ...

Australian companies 20 years off ESG reporting standards: ACSI

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... 'detailed' or 'comprehensive' this year, almost half of ASX200 companies are still rated at a level of 'no reporting' or 'basic reporting'. In the sixth study of its kind, ACSI found that whilst the percentage of companies reporting to a level of 'detailed' ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... weaker than expected Chinese inflation number and a better than expected earnings report from Alcoa in the US has given basic resource stocks a lift today, helping push the London market higher however broader European markets have struggled for traction ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
Go ahead punk, make my day! This is basically what the Parliament of itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie Cyprus told its Goliath paymasters when it rejected their demand to impose a tax on bank deposits as a pre-condition to their salvation. Not one of the 56 ...