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Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Superannuation funds with significant levels of female leadership again outperformed funds dominated by men, and have increased their likelihood of doing so, Rainmaker research reveals. Rainmaker assessed 66 super funds to derive a W-index score and ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... by more as higher tariffs are passed onto the domestic economy. Retaliation from other countries would prompt Trump to counter by expanding tariffs on other goods and services and...trade war here we come. This would raise inflation and slow growth at ...

Government renews calls for financial literacy support

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
The Federal Government is calling on its state and territory counterparts to support the expansion of its national financial literacy program in schools. The Government has invited state and territory governments to participate in a new agreement that ...

CBA affirms BBSW position

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
Commonwealth Bank reiterated it is disputing ASIC allegations in relation to trading which allegedly affected the Bank Bill Swap Rate on six occasions in 2012. CBA said yesterday that ASIC lodged an updated Statement of Claim to the Federal Court and ...

CBA denies majority of latest AUSTRAC allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
CBA said it denies most of the additional 100 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing allegations handed down from AUSTRAC last December. In its submission to the Federal Court, CBA said it "denies 89 allegations in full and admits 11 ...

L1 Capital prepares for LIC IPO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
L1 Capital appointed a syndicate of broking firms as it prepares to float its Long Short Fund listed investment company. NAB will lead the IPO, while Crestone, Morgans, Morgan Stanley, Ord Minnett, Taylor Collison and Wilsons will serve as co-lead managers ...

IFAs tackling bank-owned competitors head on

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Research shows independent financial advisers (IFAs) do not feel threatened by their bank-owned counterparts and are willing to take the competition head on. According to GlobalData's 2017 IFA survey, only a handful of IFAs perceive competition from ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Instead of reversing, the yen continued to climb after Japan's Cabinet Office released the country's National Accounts showing that economic growth slowed to an annualised rate of 0.5% in the December quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. ...

Planners vital to closing super gap: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
Latest research from Roy Morgan suggests there is greater potential for the superannuation gap to be closed if women were more inclined to engage a financial planner. According to a recent survey of more than 50,000 consumers, 8.3% of females purchase ...

Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
Australia's superannuation market is the fastest growing among other major pension systems around the globe, a new Willis Towers Watson study shows. Australia's superannuation assets grew 12.1% over the last 20 years thanks to the success of government-mandated ...