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Baby boomers not so super informed

Millions of Australians are missing out on the benefits of the new super legislation after a study found that 70 per cent of those who could take advantage of the reforms don't know the new rules exist. Mercer Wealth Solutions conducted a study in March ...

Advisers want transparency from licensees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... is talking about rebates." Hamish Douglass, chairman of the Magellan Financial Group, said the evolution of advice is a major long-term challenge for wealth management businesses which see advisers as primarily product distributors. It is likely to put ...

ATO approves ING monthly life payouts

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... avoid having them assessed as income. Mark Vilo, ING's head of marketing & retail products, life risk, said the ruling was a major breakthrough for advisers and clients who want to manage the distribution of benefits to dependents and safeguard their ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... help to boost global markets and we're benefiting from that. "The beneficiaries are the resources sector, as well as the major industrials including the banks." Ms Spencer pointed to Rio Tinto as one of the star performers today, with a strong commodity ...

AUI JVs a winning formula

... joint venture partners and mortgage and property businesses means we now have a well-diversified product set in most of the major asset classes," said AUI's head David Bryant. Michelle Baltazar

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
... following a new record high for the Dow and the Reserve Bank's decision to leave interest rates unchanged, as expected. All the major sectors were trading strongly in what analysts said was an "enthusiastic" start. At 1019 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
... leading shares closed down 0.46 per cent or 29.6 points on Tuesday, a thin trading day due to holidays in Asia and most major European stock markets, as banks weighed but media stocks surged late in the day. The FTSE 100 finished at 6419.6 points. The ...

Public equity under pressure

... said that PE multiples, a popular valuation yardstick, have soared on the back of recent M&A activity. "Definitely, the major factor driving the last six to 12 months of trading is that anything that the client sees as undervalued or being a potential ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
The Financial Literacy Foundation has scored a major goal with the introduction of an integrated financial literacy program for all school children from years three to nine, beginning in 2008. The program will embed financial literacy programs into ...

Bigger teams, more products for fixed interest: S&P

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... diversification meant that no two funds were now alike, making peer group analysis difficult. The report also pointed out a major sector problem was beta being dressed up as alpha, with managers trying to claim skill in outperforming benchmarks completely ...