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FEATURE: Managing SMSF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... these two asset classes," CoreData head of advice, wealth and super Salvador Saiz explains. But why is it so difficult to interest SMSFs in other types of investment such as fixed interest, international equities or alternatives? Some say that SMSFs ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... policymakers were prepared to cut rates in June. The euro hit a two-and-a-half-year peak near $US1.40 after the ECB held interest rates at a record low for the seventh straight month, but then dived on hints of more easing. ECB chief Draghi gave a strong ...

Family office model attractive to feuding families

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... research from Deloitte shows. The report, 2014 Private Wealth Outlook Championing Growth, found that as family businesses' interest grows in new product types and geographies, their reporting demands increase. Family offices are taking a more structured ...

Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... holding increasingly opposing positions. Most stakeholders focused on the most controversial topics of FoFA: advisers' best interest duty and the 'catch-all' phrase, the opt-in requirements, the obligation to provide fee disclosure statements and the ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... is aiming to offer investors an investment company which is markedly different from the predominantly equity and fixed interest focused LICs already listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The LIC will co-invest alongside direct investors ...

Fiducian acquisition adds $66 million in FUA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... financial years and, after estimated cost synergies, the acquisition could represent four times the company's earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT).

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... another positive as it eases inflation pressure on the economy that would give the Australian central bank scope to lower interest rates should it become necessary. And it might... be necessary... soon enough, particularly if next week's Budget turn ...

New business targets investors' bad habits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... by Legg Mason showed, Australian individual and SMSF investors have a number of habits that may not be in their best interest, such as a pronounced preference for domestic over global equities, a strong attachment to property and a very high allocation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... peril. Locally, in economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes its interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases March's international trade in goods and services data, while ...

New entrants drive growth in global equities sector

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
Over the past 12 months the global equities sector has seen the highest number of new entrants since before the onset of the global financial crisis, a report by investment research house Lonsec Research (Lonsec) has revealed. Lonsec's Global Equities ...