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REI Super launches a new app

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
Real Estate Industry Super Fund (REI Super) has launched a new mobile app providing more than 30,000 members with an expanded service. The new app, which will provide mobile access to members' accounts, investment summaries and transaction histories ...

BTFG joins Calastone funds network

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
BT Financial Group (BTFG) has joined Calastone's global funds transaction network, which allows the automation of fund transactions between different fund managers and distributors. BT Wrap has been using Calastone to send orders to market for around ...

China heading for debt disaster, sure sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
You can set your watch on it! Like clockwork the start of the New Year brings with it a brand new stick to bash China with. China has become the world's tallest poppy. It must be cut down! China was bashed in 2010 with the social unrest stick back in ...

FSC questions pertinence of APRA super stats

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has questioned the pertinence of figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) last week that show the investment returns of not-for-profit superannuation consistently outperforming those ...

Majority of Australians remain wary of technology

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The majority of the Australian population has a conservative approach to technology that ranges from those being cautious about spending money on it to those who are straight technophobes. Roy Morgan research into how Australians use and adapt to technology ...

Start structured giving with just $20,000

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013

One-stop-shop firms surge to gain scale against big instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
The number of partnerships and mergers between financial planning and accountancy firms is increasing as independent businesses brace to gain scale against the big institutionally-aligned groups. Industry concentration in the past years has strengthened ...

Shale gas revolution could be worldwide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The shale gas revolution of North America is "the big deal" and could become a worldwide phenomenon, according to T Rowe Price portfolio specialist, global equities Kurt Umbarger. Umbarger said that the US was "really, truly on the road to becoming ...

Expected retirement age slowly going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Despite the policy push for increasing the retirement age, most Australians are still retiring in their early fifties even though more future retirees expect to have to keep working beyond age 70. The average age of retirement in Australia in 2012-13 ...

"Boring" hedge funds shake gung-ho reputation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
A decline in overall hedge fund returns relative to the wider equity market in the wake of the global financial crisis reflects a change in the demands of sophisticated investors, and is not a sign that alternatives are becoming less attractive, according ...