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How much do you need to feel financially free?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
NAB has put a dollar figure on the magic number Australians think they need to "significantly improve their lives forever." The average Australian believes they need $828,000 - up 9% over last year - to turn around their life financially. However, the ...

US hedge fund slams Blue Sky

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... our analysis, we estimate that Blue Sky's real fee earning AUM is at most $1.5 billion, 63% less than Blue Sky's reported figure," Glaucus said. Glacus added Blue Sky "compensates for its overstated AUM by charging clients egregious management fees ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... 35.4% of US consumers expect stock prices to increase over the next 12 months, down from 40.1% in the previous month. This figure is the lowest proportion of respondents since November 2016 (30.9%). We were all witnesses (many of us winners) to Wall ...

CommInsure launches digital claims for super funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... Updates on the claim will be communicated through email and texts. Crapis said the insurer is working with its clients to figure out how to best deliver the service to their members. Last week, Prime Super partnered with CommInsure to launch the new ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that the annual growth rate in Australian residential property prices continued to ease in the December 2017 quarter. The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces an uphill battle in its quest to normalise monetary policy if economic and financial market agents continue to "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November ...

Senior RBA figure joins life insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The chief information officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia will join MLC Life in a newly created executive role. Sarv Girn will join MLC Life's leadership team in the new position of chief innovation and transformation officer. Girn will lead the ...

Australian Ethical underlying profit dips despite membership surge

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... fell by 5% in the half year to 31 December 2017 despite a 23% boost in superannuation membership to 37,699. This profit figure - $2.157 million - was actually up 282% on the prior corresponding period, on a net profit attributable to shareholders basis. ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
Raised volatility on Wall Street, North Korea, American protectionism, stagnant wages growth and high household debt levels, rising electricity prices and still elevated property prices - and more recently, Barnaby Joyce - these are a few of (not my ...

Airlie loses key mandate after Magellan acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... assets. A Magellan spokesperson told Financial Standard that the mandate loss was factored into the funds under management figure provided when Magellan announced its acquisition of Airlie to the ASX. That figure was $6 billion. As part of the acquisition ...