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Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... Australian bourse soared to its biggest one-day gain in two weeks to near five-year highs yesterday. Hip, hip. We've got easy monetary policy here too you know. Record low interest rates - official cash rate at 2.5% -- that's boosting share and property ...

LUCRF Super joins global calls to improve worker safety

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... protect workers. "We take our responsibility as investors seriously so signing the Investor Statement on Bangladesh was an easy decision to make. Ensuring the safety of workers needs to be a priority for retailers who source garments from Bangladesh." ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... And we might just get some more of this, thanks to the central banks, if Bloomberg's headline this morning -- "The era of easy money is shaping up to keep going into 2014" - comes true. It quoted Morgan Stanley's co-chief global economist Joachim Fels ...

HOSTPLUS targets SMSFs with direct infra option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... SMSFs. "When we thought about SMSFs," he told Financial Standard, "we thought about shares and ETFs. But SMSFs can already get easy access to those sorts of assets. "But when we thought about infrastructure, they can't really get that - or they're doing ...

Aust portfolio disclosure reforms toughest in world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013

Don't deal with Aussie Rob, ASIC warns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... statements, such as "Writing covered calls is the same as 'Share Rental' or renting out real estate"; "Options trading is easy"; and, "Returns of 5-10% per month and 60-120% per year can consistently be achieved through use of Lifestyle Options - Share ...

Super in-house investment no threat to fund managers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... terminate people, which is very, very difficult in Australia with Fair Work." Terminating a fund manager, however, is very easy. Secondly, in the case that the fund performance is neutral - "Well, you've got a very costly team, and it would have been ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... nominate Janet Yellen to take over from Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chief, raising hopes the bank would stick to its easy money policy. Tokyo climbed 1.03 per cent, or 143.23 points, to 14,037.84 and Shanghai closed 0.62 percent higher, adding 13.57 ...

MTAA Super adds calculators to website

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013

BGL forms alliance with DBA Lawyers

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... At the moment BGL and DBA have many mutual clients, so this formalises the relationship. "The BGL Simple Fund 360 makes it easy to acquire our SMSF documents. Unlike many other suppliers, our expert SMSF lawyers review and sign-off each SMSF deed. We ...