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Australia climbs up Mercer global pension index

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... effort to improve adequacy for Australian retirees and lift the score. Mercer claimed the report was the first international study of its kind to document the wealth effect - which explains increased spending as a result of rising wealth - in relation ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
The world is only six years away from welcoming its first trillionaire, according to a new study that looked at the private wealth of the world's richest denizens. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is on the way to becoming the first ...

Retail fund faces class action on MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... the time that best met their members' needs, not their own." The conduct that is the subject of this case was a case study in the Financial Services Royal Commission. A lead plaintiff for the case, Lesley Coatman, said: "It's clear from both ...

No one reads the PDS: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... particularly where the incentives of firms do not align with good consumer outcomes," the report said. It pointed to a case study from the Consumer Action Law Centre which found that payday loan providers were putting written warnings at the very bottom ...

Investors deluded on returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
... have expectations on returns that are so high they would be difficult for anyone to achieve, the Schroders Global Investor Study reveals. These expectations remain despite the low growth, low interest rate environment across global markets. The US had ...

Impact investing difficult to measure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... investors with a total of $83.5 billion in funds under management, $889 million of which is allocated to impact investments. The study looked at the preferred impact investment types amongst active investors and found that diversified financial institutions ...

SG increase will not help women: Treasury

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... would likely lead to an even larger increase in male retirement balances due to their higher lifetime earnings." In April, a study released by Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees and Women in Super measured the gap in superannuation savings ...

What fundies seek in an asset consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... performance and governance issues" as their primary response with around 40% supporting this comment." In the early years of the study this was more likely to be the third chosen comment behind statements on performance and research, he said. "This trend ...

National Seniors partners with retirement funder

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... well as individuals, looking to access home equity for a range of purposes." Earlier this year the firm co-funded a UNSW study into the lag in Australia's uptake of reverse mortgages.

Insider trading rife among company directors: ANU

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... after positive and negative news announcements from 2005 to 2015, finding trading was contrary to the sentiment of the news. Study lead Dean Katselas said: "My results show these contrary trades were being made with non-public knowledge, privy only to ...