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Zenith rates Mercer LifetimePlus

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... "Living Bonus" concept, which is created through levying a cost to members who commute their investment voluntarily or by death. This is then redistributed to remaining members as income on a six-monthly basis. "Zenith sees the MLP concept as innovative ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... his guns. No wonder his approval rating has shot up to 70% plus unlike that other PM from downunder who just had a "near-death experience" (but Tony's beside the point). I think I just heard Darryll Kerrigan (The Castle), "Tell him, he's dreaming!" -- ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... get deflation, the average citizen of the world does not understand its impact. It's the Darth Vader of the economy, the Death Star shooting a laser to blow up the Earth."" "Hyperbolic" and a bit over the top perhaps, but the message is the same, deflation ...

Prosecution drops charges against Storm adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... Prosecutions has withdrawn its charge against former Storm Financial adviser Walter John Fullerton-Smith, following the death of a key witness. Fullerton-Smith faced a charge of making a false or misleading statement to obtain a financial advantage and ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... diminish. HOSTPLUS chief investment officer Sam Sicilia, whose fund has an internal investment team, said he's seen the death of asset consultants predicted a number of times. "It hasn't eventuated," he said. "It would be a near-certainty if asset consultants ...

Mercer unveils longevity insurance product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... 'Mercer Lifetime Plus', the product behaves like a lifetime annuity, creating a 'pool of lives' and paying out an income until death. However, it does not have the same guarantees as a lifetime annuity, and therefore does not require the same capital ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
QE is dead! Long live QE! Well that went well, didn't it Virginia? The death of QE3 caused little stir in the financial markets - the S&P 500 index lost a teenie-weenie 0.1%; yields on 10-year US Treasuries increased by a small 0.02 percentage point ...

Family trusts overlooked amid SMSF boom

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... family trusts an ideal tool for multi-generational wealth transfer while SMSFs, on the other hand, must be wound up on the death of the last member, which can also raise tax issues." Hutton suggests using family trusts in conjunction with superannuation ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... were part of a wider focus on technological innovation, which he called a number one priority, and "a matter of life and death." He cited a recent example of CBA's technological innovation: an app that allows customers to withdraw money from an ATM without ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... with her family in the seventies after her parents, who were critical of the political party in power at the time, received death threats. "At that time," Fenech also recalls, "females in Malta would stay at home and not have careers. My parents wanted ...