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Adviser roadshow shines light on modern-day advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
Financial advisers took home plenty of business tips at an adviser roadshow yesterday - and many of them are refreshingly unconventional. The main function centre of Doltone House, overlooking the waterfront view of Jones Bay Wharf in Sydney, was the ...

Men more confident than women in managing SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
Although women account for 47% of SMSF trustees, they are less confident than men in managing their fund (83% to 62%), according to new research report produced by Commonwealth Bank and the SMSF Association. Released ahead of the SMSF Association's ...

New super data adds more disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... statistics now also include financial performance and fee flows within products; membership growth and account flows; a profile of insurance take up rates within products by membership; and membership demographic by age and gender and benefit bracket. ...

App lets Australians invest pocket change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A new app released in Australia will allow users to round up daily purchases and invest the "change" into a diversified exchange-traded fund portfolio. Acorns, created by father-son business Acorns Grow in 2012, was released in the US in 2014 and has ...

Super funds losing billions to fossil fuels

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
Activist group Market Forces has published a report estimating 15 Australian superannuation funds have lost about $5.6 billion on fossil fuel investments since 2014. The recent study also found losses from fossil fuel investments may have cost some ...

Global central banks going for the cut

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... have upped their odds of the risk of a cut, and we maintain that further cuts are likely - a 1.5% cash rate is in our profile." Ong added that the likelihood of further cuts is precipitated by similar decisions worldwide: "We would argue that global ...

Actuaries Institute appoints new president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... complex issues such as the ageing population, budget reform, and climate change. In 2016 the institute plans to issue high profile white papers on topics such as data analytics, insurance, banking and housing wealth. It expects this will build on its ...

Lifecycle funds startlingly varied

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... are digesting this complexity to assess the most appropriate product for their circumstances." This variation in risk profile is not unique to default lifecycle products. MySuper single strategy investment products have a range of growth assets in the ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... workforce is employed productively and that older people have enough assets in retirement to sustain them. The demographic profile of a country, coupled with the strength of its institutions, determines how well it will perform in a shifting demographic ...