Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 641 - 650 of 1246 results for "Easy"

LGS Super launches DIY option

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... desire to have control of their own financial futures," he said. "However the fact is that managing your own super fund is not easy," he added. "We have developed our DIY investment option to provide investment choices while delivering the level of service ...

High fees deter accountants from using platforms for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... (42%). Advisers who said that an investment platform is most suitable for SMSFs argued that it allows good reporting (46%), is easy to manage (39%) and has good admin (34%). The survey shows that accountants are increasingly unfamiliar with the way investment ...

MDAs allow small players to act as large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... explained. She added that "given how managed accounts allow mass customisation of investments for a mass affluent market, it's easy to see why the managed fund market is slow." But she noted that "managed accounts can still have reporting errors if an ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... points while we slept.... "the only explanation I can find is the love it's found" in central banks' forward guidance of easy money going forward. But it's not only Wall Street that's benefitting, Brazil's stock market is too - and then some. Gauging ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... problems, problems, problems everywhere on the labour market front - or is it excuses, excuses, excuses everywhere to keep policy easy. The main take-away from Jackson Hole is nicely summed up by Super Mario: "The risks of "doing too little" - i.e. that ...

Dimensional latest to join Calastone network

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... on the principle of delivering great investment outcomes for clients reliably and at low cost, so using Calastone was an easy decision for us to make," Dimensional Australia chief executive Glenn Crane said. There are a number of wrap services in Australia ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... contributions. Those earning $70,000 get a concession of 19.5% while those on $250,000 get a concession of 34%. That's a really easy target for revenue hunters," he said. With the tax on concessional contributions now worth $16 billion and forecast to ...

Lump sum rules 'utterly unsustainable': Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Group, who shared the stage with Sherry, even with a change in rules, building a vibrant fixed annuity market would not be easy. "Everyone in the market wants fixed annuities, but it's not easy. But interest rates are low at the moment. And the other ...

Tax retirement earnings at flat 15%, says consultant

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... this would be a flat 15% tax on investment earnings. "Governments would be more likely to consider it because it would be easy to implement," he told Financial Standard. This would be a preferable policy to the scrapped tax on earnings over $100,000 ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... underutilization of labor resources." (30 July statement) Nothing much to be alarmed here, Janet's still giving the Fed scope to remain easy. However, the strong second quarter rebound in the economy, should it persist, is certain to reduce this "significant ...