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MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... property or emerging market space. "I don't want to suggest that this is ramping. But as MySuper products evolve and get ready for 2017 they're moving to passive -they're doing it right now- and moving out of these more active options, and that's going ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... pipeline of projects totals around A£100 billion ($218 billion), of which RIO says A£40 billion ($87 billion) is "shovel-ready." The projects themselves suit a range of investors with different horizons, return expectations and attitudes to risk and ...

Planners ready for Trowbridge

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
Around 80% of planners are prepared to make changes to their business models should the Trowbridge recommendations be implemented, according to Investment Trends research. The June 2015 Planner Risk Report suggests most (roughly 75%) financial advisers ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Australians on the verge of retirement are least likely to be retirement ready according to new analysis from Commonwealth Bank. Reviewing the data of more than 12 million Australian superannuation accounts as at 30 June 2014, CommBank and Rice Warner ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... long time ago Just in time I will save the day..." - Peter Cetera, "Glory Of Love Lyrics" For a little while there, I was ready to give that knighthood to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot and his Treasurer Joe Hockey for turning "Bloody Monday" around ...

Consensus emerging on Tax White Paper

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... of the need for change. No submission has argued for the status quo - that the existing taxation system is fair or future ready," Hockey said. Hockey said views were mixed when it came to negative gearing and capital gains tax, but there appears "strong ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... possible movement towards a maddeningly elusive Greek rescue plan that influenced most trading, with news suggesting Athens was ready to accept increased belt-tightening as creditors considered debt relief. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose, reversing heavy ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... There's been too much ado about how every member nations and every member nation's central bank had been preparing for and are ready for a Grexit. I'm not so sure. For apart from the negative contagion in the financial markets and their negative consequences ...

Equipsuper members anxious about retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... executive officer strategic marketing and communications, Geoff Brooks, said in recent years the quality of communications and ready access to professional and personal advice has been a big a driver of confidence.

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... September AND December. According to Reuters, "Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell on Tuesday said the U.S. economy could be ready for a first interest rate hike in September followed by a second increase in December." And this from Bloomberg, "The ...