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Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... reviving market focus on M&A deals. Gotta get in before funding costs become more expensive. As per Reuters, "With US interest rates near zero for nearly a decade, debt has been cheap. But with the Federal Reserve widely expected to hike rates later ...

Bendigo wealth earnings fall 20pct despite acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... from $30.8 million in 2014 to $24.5 million in 2015. This was mainly due to operating expenses of $16.2 million and net interest income of $5.2 million. However, total funds management grew 22%, following Bendigo's acquisition of an 11% stake in Future ...

New guide teaches social media best practice

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Zurich Financial Services Australia has launched a series of case studies that promote best practice by financial advisers in the use of social media and digital marketing. The publication, the first of its kind for the industry, reflects the growing ...

ASX builds fund supermarket

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) openly says one of its strategic priorities is to continue to build out an investment supermarket. Already among the supermarket aisles are about 380 fund products with more than $200 billion in market capitalisation ...

Most life insurance consumers open to genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
A majority of consumers would accept genetic testing for detecting life-threatening conditions as part of their risk assessments for life insurance, research found. A recent survey of 134 insurance employees and their personal contacts by global life ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... term coined for the Bank of England's (BOE) data dump - announcing the monetary policy committee's (MPC) decision on interest rates, the MPC meeting minutes that led to the decision and the quarterly inflation report all in one go -- on Thursday, 6 August ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen believes proposed governance changes to superannuation fund boards ignore the lessons learnt from the HIH disaster. Speaking at the Financial Services Council annual conference, Bowen quoted Justice Neville Owen ...

Henderson reveals costs of Australian acquisitions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... during the first half of 2015 it incurred in costs of $1.7 million relating to the acquisition of 90 West, Perennial Fixed Interest and Perennial Growth Management. In June 2015, Henderson also sold its 40% stake in TH Real Estate, which resulted on ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... rate increase tops 50 percent" for emphasis. The second paragraph in Bloomberg's report says it all, "The chances of an interest-rate increase next month reached 52 percent Wednesday, up from just 38 percent just two days earlier. What's fueled the change ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... members', it appears far fewer members than popularly believed are passively "ending up" in default funds through lack of interest or engagement. More than 1,000 default super members and 28 executives from 20 funds were surveyed as part of a broader ...