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Retail investors buy hybrids despite dangers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... equity. I believe retail investors chase yields blindly, said Peter Dobrijevic director of Polymath Investors because it is easy to focus on just one number. "This is evinced by the egregious financial disasters that befall retail investors time and ...

AMP updates FLP insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... Insurability (GFI) feature to allow de facto couples to increase their cover more easily," he said. GFI is a feature that makes it easy to increase cover at key times in a person's life, such as having or adopting a child and becoming a carer for the ...

Advisers urged to discuss structured giving

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... even 1% of your wealth whereas someone worth $5 million who is giving away the same amount is contributing 20%. It's pretty easy to see who is the more generous. "We shouldn't be focusing on the amount - if the principle is giving money away then pick ...

Generations split on what causes sleepless nights

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... account (68%) and least likely to put it in a term deposit (7%) due to inexperience with term deposits and greater need for easy access to their money. The most dramatic split between the generations came when asked how their current financial position ...

Insurance cover launched for SMSFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... added. Many people don't consider insurance, Kelly said, because they think it won't happen to them, but we believe it is so easy to take this risk out of your fund, and the cost is immaterial compared to the amount you can lose.

Retirement income the big challenge

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... rely on both, but our guess is you're going to come to impute a great deal of importance to that income stream because it's easy." McFarlane holds that people tend to get too preoccupied by share price, but predicts the focus of capital asset models ...

AMP updates Ascend SMSF

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... online service powered by Super IQ technology. Paul Sainsbury, managing director of AMP SMSF said the online service has an easy to use web portal, an instant online access to fund information and the ability for advisers to complete a new SMSF application ...

ASX partners with SGX on futures

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... doesn't exist otherwise." Raper said he is pleased with the way the deal has been going as it's been a straight forward and easy process. "I'm positive about the relationship as we both are committed to helping each other out which is great," he adde ...

StatewideSuper re-signs Bravura

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... the efficiency needed to effectively service members and employers and deliver quality, low-cost super products that are easy to understand and that offer choice of investment options. "Using a combination of Bravura's administration platforms, we can ...

Advisers positive about fee for service

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... negative impact on their business. Viskovic added, however, that working out a fee structure for an advice business is not an easy task. "The main challenge advisers have when switching for a fee for a service is that they have difficulty finding the ...