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ING low-fee super hits $1bn mark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... balanced option allocates 50% to growth and 50% to defensive assets, and aims to achieve average returns of 2.5% per annum above CPI over a four year period, before fees and tax. Its growth option, meanwhile, allocates 70% to growth and 30% to defensive ...

Government clarifies adviser register funding

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... the $24 fee to update and remove AFS licensee's records will increase to $30. These additional costs are on top of the usual CPI increase to the current fees. Cormann's spokesperson said that "the revenue raised over the next four years, through the ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... month-on-month drop in energy prices in September and 2.6% decline in August. It's the same in Australia's case where the headline CPI slowed significantly to 2.3% in the September quarter from 3.0% in the three-months to June period. To be sure, much ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... the current projection period from fiscal 2014 to 2016". Sure, sure Shirley. That's not the indication given by the latest CPI report. It showed core CPI (excluding the direct impact of the tax hike) easing to 1.1% annual rate in August from 1.3% in ...

HOSTPLUS to buy $600m Woolworths properties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... retail portfolio through the Dan Murphy's and BWS retail liquor assets, provides the Group with exposure to a high quality CPI hedged resilient rental income cash flow, generated from a high calibre tenant that leads both the retail liquor and pub hospitality ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening to turn into outright deflation, financial ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... But if you read the BOJ statement carefully, you'll also read the one which says, "The year-on-year rate of increase in the CPI is likely to be around 1A1/4 percent for some time". But this is also good, it's better than negative. However, if the BOJ's ...

AustralianSuper balanced option returns 13.88% in FY13

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... years the option has returned an average of 7.64% each year, well in front of the inflation rate and ahead of the benchmark of CPI plus 4%.

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... production slowed to a mere 2.1% in May after expanding by as much as 10.5% in January. You want more? There's more. Japan's core CPI inflation picked up pace to an annual rate of 3.4% in May from 3.2% in April. But don't forget that this is boosted ...