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Only a quarter of Australians contributing to reach retirement goals

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... fund members to gauge customer satisfaction and analyse member trends concerning financial needs, retirement goals and interest in SMSFs. According to the results, the primary reason (50%) Australians aren't contributing more to their super is because ...

ASIC bans former Westpac problem gambler

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
ASIC has permanently banned a former Westpac home finance manager from practicing financial services. Ravinesh Singh was convicted of fraud after working at Westpac's Market Street branch in 2011 and 2012, where he withdrew over $113,000 using eight ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... know. And now's the time to borrow when money's cheap as chips - at current bond yields, Australia can lock in a low interest rate of 2.41% over the next 10 years - or just 0.11% adjusted for inflation - to spend on increasing productive capacity. The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... January, while orders for US durable goods rose 2.8 per cent. In Europe stocks pushed higher, as chances of a quick US interest rate hike recede. Locally, the Reserve Bank will release financial aggregates for January on Friday. In company news Woolworths ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... records on Wall Street on the back of positive congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen about interest rates. CommSec chief economist Craig James says there were impressive international lead-ins for the local bourse. The Dow ...

UBS joins mFund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... opportunities covering an ever increasing range of asset classes and regions." As reported in Financial Standard in January, interest in mFund is increasing with advisers and accountants, who are waiting for more funds to be added to the service.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... following rises on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve chief indicated the US central bank was in no hurry to raise its interest rate. At 0833 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 24 points at 5,909. In local economic ...

ClearView calls for life insurance industry crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... has petitioned Life Insurance and Advice Working Group (LIAWG) chairman John Trowbridge to fix numerous conflicts of interest within the industry. The key recommendations in ClearView's statement were indicating that narrow APLs were not in "clients' ...

Providers boost adviser access to managed accounts

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... found that SMA usage had not grown and the number of advisers using them has remained stable at 18% since 2011. However, interest in SMAs was the highest since 2011. "The industry now has the chance to spur more substantive adoption of SMAs, provided ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... towards Greece to the Fed? Surely what the Fed does matters... a lot. Being the global benchmark, what happens to US interest rates matters not only to America's domestic economy but to the rest of the world - in terms of economic growth; capital flows ...