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FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... retirement and superannuation. But it is also helping us understand them better." An economic context of low returns, low interest rates, high valuations and high volatility is challenging industry institutions that are willing to take action. "Focusing ...

AMP China Fund changes "too weak": unit holders

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
The largest independent unit holder of the China Growth Fund (AGF) has labeled AMP Capital's effort to reduce the discount "extremely disappointing and too weak." LIM Advisors is directly contacting other unit holders of the fund as it considers that ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession. In addition, continuing to hold short-term interest rates near zero well after real activity has returned to normal and headwinds have faded could encourage excessive leverage ...

SMSFs impacted by power of attorney rule changes

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... requirements to make and revoke appointments, outlining the duties of the enduring attorneys, expressly prohibiting conflict of interest transactions without express permission, regulating the giving of gifts and introducing new civil and criminal penalties ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and proximity to Asia's rising middle class are partly reasons for Australian superannuation funds to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... While much has been said - for or against - the Fed's focus on "international developments" as rationale for not lifting interest rates this month, there could be another reason why it didn't... and it's much closer to home....and it's name is shutdown. ...

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... there was anything untoward in the work KPMG were doing, the report was right to identify it as a potential conflict of interest." Bennett was so intrigued by the report that she decided to contact CGI and apply for a position. "They were keen to have ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... become even more challenging with slowing growth being compounded by the uncertainty over the timing of the first Fed interest rate hike since 2008 and extreme volatility in China's equity markets - both of which are heightening volatility all around. ...