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Un-Keynesian

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... into law in Uncle Sam county (reportedly before Christmas). But while our American brothers may have themselves a merry little Christmas in 2017 and the next couple of years, the longer term picture is not that jolly. It's because of the deficit the ...

Impact of dementia on estate planning efficacy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... used to purchase a house for him, his mother and siblings, as well as produce an income," Hacker said. "His father had had little to do with him since he was born, and his mother was his primary carer. The child was about to undergo serious surgery and ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... dogs were busy gearing up for the Black Friday sale that the big drop in China's stock market last Thursday got just a little hoo-ha last week. Even the S&P/ASX 200 index closed a mere 0.06% weaker on the 24th of November - the day when the Shanghai ...

gigSuper reaches out to self-employed

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... self-employed or working in the gig economy, co-founders Peter Stanhope and Martin Batur say they're out to solve the "dirty little secret of the self-employed", namely that the vast majority of them don't voluntarily contribute to superannuation. "Seventy-five ...

Males dominate ASX200 top job

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... is 44 years. Eight in 10 (82%) have an undergraduate degree and more than half (54%) hold postgraduate qualifications; a little over one-in-five (22%) completed an MBA. International work experience is highly regarded as six in 10 chief executives have ...

ATO affirms SMSF event-based reporting rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... framework is more targeted than the original blanket approach, which would have proved problematic and costly in practice, for little or no benefit," SISFA said. SISFA added the ATO's position represents a significant concession to the original options ...

NAB hastily recruits after announcing job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... regions of operation would be effected. The union has also since labelled NAB's transition initiative, The Bridge, as 'too little too late' and saying it doesn't provide the level of support workers need. "The FSU has negotiated industry leading job ...

AMP introduces facial recognition for mobile clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... they are exploring. "It's effectively predictive underwriting through data analytics, which we've been looking at for a little while now. The work that we've done so far does demonstrate that it is extremely accurate," MLC Life head of underwriting Simon ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... apply machine learning techniques in financial services is the use large data sets with low signal-to-noise ratios and little stationarity. "Getting the techniques to be fit for purpose for data that looks like that is a big hurdle. These things don't ...

Market neutral isn't always the neutral: Alleron

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
According to a high-conviction Australian equity manager, a 150/50 strategy may actually carry less drawdown risk than a market neutral approach. Alleron Investment Management chief executive Barry Littler explained that a 150% geared long portfolio ...