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Retail funds recommending advice fee rates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
While retail super funds post-FOFA have unbundled their embedded advice commissions, half still recommend an average 0.55% in ongoing advice service fees, the annual super fee survey from Rainmaker reveals. As a result of the compulsory adoption of ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... generation - are digitally savvy and embrace new entrants," she said. Citi research has also shown that by 2020, 14% of US retail banking revenues will be disrupted, compared with only 1% today. "The choice to embrace disruption has already been made ...

Insto investor acquires $236.6m US property

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... commercial and residential real estate and also develops and manages commercial and residential properties. This is the tenth US retail property QIC has invested into on behalf of its Australian clients over the last 18 months. Earlier this year, QIC ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... against the yen. Regional investors were given another positive lead from Wall Street following a better-than-forecast US retail sales report. Tokyo climbed 0.12 per cent, or 24.11 points, to 20,407.08, although the gains were capped by worries about ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,549. Wall Street stocks were up after a solid US retail sales report suggested American consumers are gaining confidence after a sluggish first quarter. However there were falls ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... of April retail sales figures questioning the "transitory" nature of the speed bump in first quarter economic growth. US retail spending was flat in April, disappointing expectations for a 0.2% gain and a sharp slowdown from the 1.1% gain in March. The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... cent, at 5,710.8. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished little changed in choppy trade following a lacklustre US retail sales report and disappointing earnings from Macy's. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 7.74 points (0.04 per cent) to ...

AustralianSuper inks $1.1bn US property deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... which in late 2013 was awarded an open-ended mandate from AustralianSuper to seek out investment opportunities in prime US retail properties.

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... unemployment data came out. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was steady at 5,232. US retail sales rose 0.7 per cent - the most in eight months - as shoppers benefited from an improving job market and cheaper fuel. ...

Super sets sights on $2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
Superannuation assets climbed 10% in the 12 months to end September 2014 to reach $1.871 trillion and are on track to break the $2 trillion barrier by March next year. MySuper accounts for 33% of institutional super funds surveyed by APRA or $375 billion ...