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New super fund combats account erosion for young Aussies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
A new superannuation fund is aiming to address the needs of Australian university students and young professionals. Student Super plans to give young Australians a head start when it comes to superannuation, saying the first decade of super contributions ...

Placer Property launches new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... The 333 Exhibition Street Property Fund is investing a commercial office building in Melbourne which is leased to the University of Melbourne. The building offers a forecast distribution yield of 6.5% per annum. "The establishment of the fund is consistent ...

FSC proposes genetics and insurance council

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... was developed in 2002 - an area the industry self-regulates so Australians can confidently participate in medical or university research if they wish, she said. "Australia is well placed to be a world leader in genetic research and the life insurance ...

Nomura appoints Australian president

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... wholesale, merchant banking, corporate, and banking businesses. Separately, Nomura Holdings is currently working with a university on a research project to test if quantum computing can speed up calculations and select investment mixes for its asset ...

Responding to the revolution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... comes from the institutions and thoughtful implementation of technology," Davis said. At present, about 60% of all university students are studying for jobs that will be transformed by automation in the coming decade. Davis said that what most don't ...

AdviserLogic signs with global risk profiling giant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... FinaMetrica co-founder Paul Resnik said. The twenty-year-old FinaMetrica Risk Tolerance Toolkit was developed with University of New South Wales and is now maintained with London School of Economics academics. Its risk tolerance solutions have been integrated ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... reinforce the results of a recently released study into the stock market trading performance of Finnish investors by University of NSW and Sydney University academics that found women traders consistently outperformed male counterparts. Last year a study ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... retirement, according to a retirement planning expert. David Babbel, a retirement strategy expert and professor from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School, said it can cost retirees 30% to 40% more money to fund retirement without ...

MLC, ANU boost alternatives strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
MLC and Australian National University will ramp up allocations to alternative assets in 2018, according to latest Preqin research. Preqin highlighted the two Australian firms in its alternative assets outlook report, which surveyed more than 550 institutional ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... tightening monetary policy settings is exactly to ensure that rising inflation doesn't get out of hand. The latest University of Michigan consumer confidence survey attests to this with the readings on inflation expectations unchanged at 2.7% (one-year ...