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ClearView slams APL standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Listed financial advice firm ClearView criticised the Financial Services Council's life insurance approved product list draft standard as superficial and ineffectual, saying it will only allow sub-par practices to continue. ClearView managing director ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Threats and counter threats are coming in fast between the United States and North Korea suggesting that neither side is backing down from a full-scale armed (nuclear or conventional) confrontation. On his visit to Seoul, US vice-president Mike Pence ...

Gross and PIMCO settle dispute

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
Star bond manager Bill Gross has settled a law suit with former employer PIMCO, ending a 15-month legal battle. Gross, 72, sued PIMCO for $US200 million following his abrupt departure from the firm in 2014, claiming that he was forced out so colleagues ...

Instos unclear about ETF value

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Australian institutional investors are in the middle of an education process when it comes to figuring out what an ETF is, how it works, and how it will benefit them, iShares head of fixed income strategy Matthew Tucker said. Retail and wealth investors ...

Human Super pitches product designed for women

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
Human Super, the latest superannuation product specifically crafted for women, will soon launch in Australia. Co-founded by Mike Walpole and Kuba Tymula, the product hopes to reach out to women who the co-founders see as massively underserved by the ...

Mercer launches LifetimePlus 2.0

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
In order to make its longevity solution more accessible to retail investors and advisers, Mercer has created a second version of LifetimePlus. The new version incorporates 35% growth assets - originally it was fully defensive - and has been streamlined ...

Boring but the trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
The world of financial markets and tea-leaves reading would be a boring place if not for "seasonality adjusted" estimates of economic statistics, especially ones that go up one month and down the next and/or beat expectations one month and disappoint ...

Females and Gen Y expecting less

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
Australian women's expectation of a well-paid job earns $14,000 less a year than that of a man's. Research commissioned by NAB shows Australian men consider a salary of $127,271 as being well-paid, yet their female counterparts are happy to settle for ...

RBNZ on steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
Central bankers have been singing the same tune, at least so far this year. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) joined its counterparts in Japan, the US, the UK and Australia in keeping current monetary policy settings steady while at the same time ...

Half of Australian households will be retire ready

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
About half of Australian households are expected to have enough saved for a comfortable retirement, according to the latest CommBank Retire Ready Index. The report, which bases their comfortable retirement standard on the Association of Superannuation ...