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NAB refunds $25m to Navigator Wrap customers

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... customers was ever counted as part of any NAB Group business' assets. The average customer pay-out will be $400, including interest. "NAB Wealth has applied significant focus to our breach identification and reporting processes, which is what led to ...

Australians making more money from investing than working

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Median Sydney house prices reaching $1 million combined with another strong year from super funds highlights how, for many Australians, their investments make more money than they do. Newspapers in Sydney this week featured stories about how the median ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... This one again from Bloomberg quoting Jordan, "Now the Fed has made it clear that they want to get off of the zero-bound interest-rate policy and nobody knows what it means for the market." Again, true that. While economists, financial market experts ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
A high level of engagement with superannuation savings can lead members to make the wrong move at the wrong time, industry execs have warned. "The joke is that often if you're disengaged with your super, ironically it can be good," State Street Global ...

Singapore looks to Australia on risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has implemented key risk/life insurance advice reforms that were inspired by similar policies in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK. Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong said these countries' ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... report for the June quarter has heated up speculations of whether or not the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would cut interest rates once (or twice?) more. First the stats: annual headline CPI inflation was clocked at 1.5% in the June quarter, up from ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... criticism for appearing slow but in the long-term we're making sure we're putting things right going back 10 years, paying interest on the money and fast-tracking hardship cases," he said. Reflecting on what the future of the industry might look like ...

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
As a former project manager, David Braga has seen it all. He's worked on almost every type of job going in the financial services industry, which is precisely what makes him the right man for the job as BNP Securities Services' new head of Australia ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... clarification of local taxation laws mean some of these options may be viable in the future and, importantly, in the best interest of unit holders." AMP Capital is working with an investment adviser to close the discount. The fund's net return for the ...

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Advisers may have to recalibrate 'safe' retirement income portfolios in a world of low interest rates - and that may mean blending equity, real and fixed income. That's because when you consider the five-year rate on a typical annuity or term deposit ...