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Performance, fees still major retention risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... noted the research. Even though employment is the main reason people switch super funds, the importance of this factor has fallen from 84% in 2005 to 63% in 2013 - suggesting that if this trend continues within five years employment is likely account ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... from $US1.3555. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose following another record close on Wall Street, while oil prices have fallen after Iran struck a deal on its nuclear program that will see eased sanctions on the oil producer. The generally positive ...

Down, down, A$ stay down (please?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

FoFA boosts advice business valuation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. Radar Results data shows that sales of practices specialising in corporate super have fallen again, whereas the number of mortgage buyers has increased due to the demand for this style of client and trail revenue. ...

AllianceBernstein targets retirees with high yield fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... of income. AllianceBernstein senior portfolio manager Jeremy Cunningham noted that annuity and term-deposit rates have fallen in the recent years, with investors now looking into franked equities and hybrid debt-equity securities to secure better income ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... focus on in a negative context coming out of the Bernanke speech." Locally, among the major banks at 1200 AEDT, Westpac had fallen 26 cents to $32.28, ANZ had lost 32 cents at $31.50, Commonwealth Bank had dipped 50 cents at $76.70, and National Australia ...

TAL's profits take a beating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
Life insurer TAL's profits have fallen by almost 60% since last year, according to second quarter figures released by TAL's Japanese parent company Dai-ichi Life. TAL's profit for the first six months of the Japanese financial year were $29 million ...

Advisers leave China and turn to US growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... clients to invest in the US or North America over the next months, up from 10% in 2009. However, interest in China has fallen, with only 12% of advisers willing to recommend single-region Chinese exposure in 2013, compared to 35% in 2010. "Improved investor ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... 0.03 per cent to 9,078.28 points. Meanwhile, the CAC 40 in Paris ended down 0.48 per cent to 4,260.44 points after having fallen as much as 1.6 per cent on the downgrade by Standard and Poor's of France's credit rating. HONG KONG - Asian markets sank ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... the biggest since May 2010). Based to the National Association of Realtors' data, the pending home sales index has now fallen for four straight months. Four months consecutive of falls? That means home sales started in falling in June. Exactamondo! That's ...