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Retirement planning is a personal responsibility

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
... study said their savings wouldn't get close to what they need in retirement. People approaching retirement were only a little less pessimistic, with 26% of Australians within five years of retirement believing they wouldn't get close to what is needed. ...

Grandfathered commission debate an overreaction: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... ongoing debate around the removal of grandfathered commissions is an "overreaction", with trail commissions contributing little to the overall income of financial advice practices in reality. Addressing delegates at the 2018 Association of Financial ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... full-time positions in June (after May's 8600 addition). These pretty-ful set of numbers have unsurprisingly triggered a little bit of RBA rate hike speculations. But hold your horses! Before the RBA raises interest rates, it has to be certain that ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's prepared testimony before the US Congress (and even in the Q&A session) offered very little forward guidance - it was mainly a playback of what markets already know and have speculated about since the US central bank's ...

Chief executive pay cheques get fatter

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... communities and investors." The report said base pay for ASX 100 CEOs, the fixed component of their remuneration, showed little growth. This reflects incumbent CEOs receiving modest increases and new CEOs being appointed on lower fixed pay than their ...

AMP claims director exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
The director of claims at AMP has resigned after a little over 12 months in the role. AMP confirmed Jen Mitchell has left the organisation, with Margot Wilson taking her place on an interim basis. Melbourne-based Mitchell joined AMP as head of claims ...

Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... previous periods, we have owned more than this [$800m-$1bn]. For a variety of factors, whether we felt the RMBS market was a little more liquid or spreads were a little bit wider," Lee says. Alongside renewed fund manager interest are several recent ...

Chief economist update: Steady at 24 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... strengthens. The central forecast is for CPI inflation to be a bit above 2% in 2018." "Nationwide measures of housing prices are little changed over the past six months. Conditions in the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets have eased, with prices declining ...

Same insurance cover, different price: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... annual insurance premiums," he said. With higher risk occupations, premiums also differed. A 45-year-old member can pay as little as 87 cents and up to $26.40 per week - almost 30 times more. For a 45-year-old member working in a low-risk occupation ...

Aussie funds to access Asian markets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... Australia's uncompetitive withholding tax system. "Australia's complex withholding tax system for funds management raises little money, but harms our competitiveness. If withholding taxes are not reformed, Australia's fund managers will be ...