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FEATURE: Risk at risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... fund in a retail sense than I can in the group.' I do see that as a real risk." While it may be premature to foretell the doom of the group insurance industry, its problems are clearly far from over. For the full story, go to FS Super.

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... Walsh. Walsh said the move among larger super funds towards more in house investment capabilities does not necessarily spell doom for fund managers, but it means they must take a more collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all approach if they want ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... headed by David Murray will require the banks to hold more capital". And what would a list of bad news be without Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini (although it wasn't him who made the prediction but Roubini Global Economics local analyst David Nowakowski). ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Here we go again; a parliamentarian proposes a policy response to housing affordability involving superannuation and trade-side interest groups circle the wagons, warning of capital market calamity. Triggering this latest ruckus is that at end July ...

Better use of client information essential to adviser success

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... preferences, technology options, general attitudes to life, the activities that they prefer and the demographics. "It's not all doom and gloom. People can be very successful in this new era, but to do that you need to be completely customer obsessed," ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
A correction is looming... and soon! Right on schedule Virginia, we're again hearing calls for a dip, a fall, a stumble, a correction on Wall Street straight after both the S&P 500's and the Dow's climb to fresh record highs last week, yet again. How ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... dropping. The momo, biotech and social media stocks tick tock. I remember this well, this was the time (mid-April) that Dr. Doom - aka Marc Faber - that a 1987-style crash cometh (yet again). Crimea and the sanctions imposed by the West' on Russia - ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Price hikes widely anticipated in the super fund group risk market have not manifested in any more than a small handful of funds. That is the finding of the 2014 Rainmaker superannuation group insurance survey of 14,834 risk options offered by 206 super ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten