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Yellow Brick Road launches super fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
Confusion over the superannuation system is at the heart of why so many Australians are detached from their retirement savings, according to Yellow Brick Road executive chairman Mark Bouris. He said that taking control of savings, and having access ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... 32 cents to $34.52 while Rio Tinto was down 96 cents to $53.72. "It is going to be one of those days where we'll see a switch out of equities, we've certainly followed Wall Street's lead today," Commonwealth Securities market analyst Juliette Saly said. ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... US equities appear to be taking this on their stride. And why not? With a stronger growth and less QE, investors simply switch from defensive and high yield plays into cyclical and growth-orientated scripts. Easy! Then again, perhaps not. Not according ...

Planning software not ready for FoFA opt-in hurdle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... when selecting financial planning software," he added. The survey also showed that a quarter of financial advisers would switch software providers over poor functionality.

Facebook users moving on

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... teenagers, Twitter is used by 22%, Instagram by 21% and Snapchat by 13%. Facebook is still, however, used by 55%. Driving the switch is the age-old phenomenon among young people to do things differently to their parents and so as their parents have adopted ...

AIST CEO asks for long term changes in super

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... look at is the post-retirement stage and how it interacts with the aged pension and aged care. Also, the industry needs to switch the focus from just revenue to people. "We need to change the discussion away from focusing on full-on revenue to actually ...

Only 7% of fund members switched options during GFC: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
Super funds build their systems around investment choices yet even in response to the GFC, only a small proportion of fund members changed their investments. A research paper just published in the Australian Journal of Management, titled 'Retirement ...

Advisers open to double allocation to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
An industry spot poll found that financial advisers are open to switching from a 70:30 split on their domestic versus global equities allocation to a 50:50 following a well-argued case on the merits of investing more offshore. Attended by more than ...

Australia better long-term bet than the US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Smaller developed economies look far more attractive investment propositions than traditional global investment centres such as the US, Europe and Japan, according to BlackRock's global chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich. Addressing journalists ...

Insider selling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
The insiders are selling! The insiders are selling! But before this let's switch over to our man on Wall Street. Hold on...our man, Mr. Bloomberg (not New York's Mayor but the "premier site for business and financial market news"), seems confused. At ...