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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... from excessive house lending and to push investors out of the housing market. Grim reading in the US Financial Capability Study report The just-released report of the US National Financial Capability Study reveals that despite the recovering US economy ...

Fee and return disclosures influence retirement choice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... switching will take several years. Potential members are, however, likely to appreciate cost efficiencies much faster." The study also finds that a performance graph in the full MySuper dashboard was no more effective than a table of numbers, and was ...

ETF pioneer donates $100m to ANU

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... undergraduate degrees. The scholarships hold a value of $100,000 per student over five years for a program of undergraduate study. ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said the collegiate-style residences would generate revenue to fund the scholarship ...

Sponsored adviser survey: two chances to win $500 prize

This study looks at how financial advisers are coping with an increasingly challenging environment with regard to technology, product selection, communication and regulation. There is a cash prize of $500 for the two most insightful answers. Are you ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
Daily economic activities across Australia and the world are first viewed by Stephen Anthony through one lens - the national interest. It is the chief economist's view that whatever is in the national interest is generally going to be in the interest ...

New study looks for retirement insights

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
New research being undertaken by Swinburne University of Technology hopes to uncover how women over 55 years of age experience retirement and how that experience differs to men. Conducted by Swinburne emeritus professor Susan Moore and University of ...

Investors looking to real estate over infrastructure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... to meet diversification and absolute return objectives, according to Invesco's latest Global Sovereign Asset Management Study. While Asian sovereign investor allocations to infrastructure did increase over the last three years, total allocations remain ...

Life insurers must be more transparent: AFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016
... Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox. According to the interim results from the Beddoes Institute's Claimant Journey Study, three of the largest life insurance companies have allowed an independent assessment of their life insurance, trauma, TPD and ...

ASFA recognises super challenge for PC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... and efficiency of a complex and heterogeneous system and its wider industry. In its first submission to the commission's study, ASFA said super's mix of participants and level of competition means efficiency should be assessed in separate groups by splitting ...

Foreign managers priced out of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... weighted average fee being around 60 basis points. These rank as some of the lowest fees charged globally as evidenced in a study of FSC members managing $7 trillion which we produced for the Financial System Inquiry." In some ways, this is unsurprising ...