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Super to engender securitisation 'rebirth': Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The superannuation system could use its huge and ever-growing pool of capital to become a mortgage lender in partnership with the banks, according to Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden. Speaking at the Actuaries Institute's Financial ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed that he plans to raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035 in the upcoming Budget. Confirmation came in an interview with Alan Jones on 2GB radio in which the two men were discussing the Commission of Audit's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... ($A21.51 billion) in assets. The market was also cheered by a plethora of earnings that mostly beat expectations. LONDON - Huge deal-making in the pharmaceutical sector gave European stocks a shot in the arm, even though tension over the crisis in Ukraine ...

Super fund custody 'fee holidays' revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... and a half or two years of the fund administration or custody have been done for nothing." In particular, Citi has seen a huge surge in market share, boosted most notably by the acquisition of $14 billion-and-growing industry fund HOSTPLUS as a client. ...

ANZ launches bank-aligned news site

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... he said that the bank sees its 8 million customers and almost 60,000 employees as potential audience. "ANZ already has a huge community that includes eight million customers and almost 60,000 individual employees. Our audience for quality journalism ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... because the system here is relatively young and nimble. "One of the things that excites me about Australia is there's this huge pile of money and there's this hunger for innovation, there's an openness for innovation, you're not bogged down in as much ...

Advisers at risk of losing three in 10 clients

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... are planning to seek advice, seven in 10 (69.5%) don't know which advice provider they plan to use. "The findings reveal a huge untapped opportunity for financial advisers to target the large number of unadvised Australians that are looking for professional ...

Super fund CEOs compete on breast cancer fundraiser

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... "Participants will tell you there is something special about the atmosphere at the Mother's Day Classic, whether you attend a huge capital city event or a small community gathering," Mother's Day Classic national chair Louise Davidson said, adding: "The ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... the end of February." Could it be that investors have taken a second look at these sectors, and found that they have paid huge premiums to own the next big things... in the excitement of it all? As 1upwallstreet.com explains, "Mobile and/or social media ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... the way that this played out in the media. The AFA complained that the industry funds' arguments "have been able to get a huge level of coverage in the media" despite the fact that their claims were "predominantly inaccurate." "The coverage has reached ...