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Investor interest in long-short strategies surging: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... short selling effectiveness. Pleasingly, all our rated managers have leverage-adjusted short exposures that are below this figure, providing our financial adviser clients with confidence that capacity among our rated funds is prudently managed," Smart ...

Pre-retirees fear longevity risk: AustralianSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... adviser in the past 12 months. More concerning, 60% of respondents admitted they don't have a plan for retirement. Figure 1. AustralianSuper Retirement Confidence Index research As such, AustralianSuper is urging all Australians to take steps to ...

Unintended consequences for opt-in insurance: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... to wipe an extra 1.4% on average from the account balances of females through erosion. Currently sitting at 15.8%, the figure is set to increase for people earning less than $18,200 in annual income to 17.6%. In its Insurance in superannuation report ...

Adviser performance data vital to remuneration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
In-depth communication of business performance data in financial advice practices can play a key role in motivating team members and the creation of remuneration packages, latest research shows. The inaugural Adviser Remuneration Report from Elixir ...

SMSF cash balances not ballooning: BGL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
SMSF cash balances have increased in the past year but are not at an all-time high as is often suggested, according to latest research from BGL Corporate Solutions. BGL found cash balances increased 3.35% on 31 March 2018 as compared to a year earlier. ...

Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... Manzanero-Caruana looked at aged care case studies involving couples. One of the challenges she presented to the audience was to figure out if a couple's situation made them "illness separated couple". The Age Care Act doesn't define what qualifies ...

Members abandon bank-aligned group insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... and MetLife are the dominant life insurance providers, which collectively represent nearly 80% of all NFP members. (See Figure 1). In the retail segment AMP, CommInsure, OnePath and Westpac are the insurers for about two-thirds of all members in retail ...

Unpaid super reaches $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Super Australia is lobbying the Federal Government to improve proposed laws that further address unpaid superannuation, a figure estimated to be about $5.9 billion as at 2015-16. Speaking to a Senate committee hearing in Canberra on Friday, ISA public ...

Super scorecard to shift consumer playing field

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... Figures 1 and 2) which shows the average super balances of more than 1.6 million retired members is now over $250,000. Figure 1. Largest super funds by assets in retirement phase "Many people are now accumulating super balances that will make a meaningful ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on building approvals is consistent with views of slowing activity in the country's housing market. But perhaps, not as dire as the headline seasonally-adjusted monthly numbers suggest. ...