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Australia, a tough nut to crack

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
Australia's brutally competitive investment market is much harder for overseas investment managers to crack than many realise, notes a leading US investment management consultant. Cerulli Associates has just released a client briefing about the Australian ...

More Australians intend to retire later

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
The proportion of Australians intending to retire beyond age 65 is increasing rapidly. According to a research note just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), a survey conducted in 2015 showed 71% of people said they intended to retire ...

UK to introduce lifetime ISAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
The UK government has just announced in its 2016 budget that it will be launching subsidised Lifetime Individual Savings Accounts that will allow people under 40 to save for their first home and retirement. The initiative follows a raft of other measures ...

PC releases Efficiency and Competition Review issues paper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
The Productivity Commission has released an issues paper outlining how it will be approaching its latest efficiency and competition review of the superannuation system. The review was commissioned by Treasurer Scott Morrison earlier this year as part ...

Govt announces superannuation's objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
The government has released a discussion paper outlining the formal objective of Australia's superannuation system that it proposes to enshrine in legislation. The words the government is proposing are the same as those recommended by the Financial ...

SEC to run ad campaign promoting online consumer adviser checks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) is stepping up its campaign to encourage retail investors to check the credentials of financial advisers. Later this year the SEC will be launching an updated version of its consumer campaign to remind ...

Rising age pension costs unfair on young people: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
The cost of the age pension is growing so rapidly that it risks breaking Australia's intergenerational social contract, warns a new report. The report, 'The myths of the intergenerational bargain' by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), says that ...

US resistance to DOL fiduciary rule gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
Momentum is building against the US Department of Labor's (DOL) proposed fiduciary rule for retirement advisers with House Speaker Paul Ryan now joining the critics. The DOL has been working on expanding the fiduciary obligation since the GFC when millions ...

Financial services jobs at risk of automation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
A new report released by the CSIRO predicts that 44% of jobs currently performed by Australian workers are at risk of automation, especially routine jobs within the services industry such as in the financial sector. The CSIRO report, "Tomorrow's Digitally ...

Lack of scaleability curbs hedge fund appeal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
Hedge funds are too nuanced to be scaled and investors shouldn't try to assemble them into portfolios, said a leading alternatives investment manager. "Investing in a hedge fund is a collectors' business. You're not building a portfolio but a collection ...