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Super is "next on the menu" for disruption: new ASFA CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... inherent to his new role, saying he "carried the weight of success of my predecessor, Pauline Vamos" and that he felt "a little bit like the new Dr. Who." Referring to the shock news of a Trump presidency, Fahy said that "it's tempting to dramatically ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... Trump's conciliatory acceptance speech. Meanwhile, US Treasury yields were higher with a steeper curve, and the dollar was little changed versus most of its currency rivals. Not bigger than Brexit DNR Capital chief investment officer, Jamie Nicol, said ...

Fintechs face marketing battle

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... Australian fintech start-ups to enter the local marketplace is evidenced by research suggesting these new players pose little threat to the industry. A Yell Creative survey of 150 financial marketers found more than 66% believe fintech start-ups pose ...

ETFs to reach $6 trillion by 2020

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... collaborating, sub-advising or using existing ETF platforms," Elias said. The report says despite 74% of respondents having little appetite for acquisition-led growth, larger promoters continue to acquire smaller ones in many ETF markets. And 60% of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... another 0.1% following a similar fall in the previous month. The swings in the monthly private sector credit numbers offer little directional view on the state of credit demand in Australia but the year-on-year growth rates point to slowing loan demand. ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... Australia needs to find ways to increase capital expenditure; investors trading existing assets for short-term gain are doing little to increase either growth or productivity," author of the report and ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said. "Companies ...

The infrastructure benchmark challenge

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... aggregation is challenging. "The simple challenge is the hardship of data aggregation. An airport and a toll road have very little in common and if we look to Australia, there aren't too many of them,"Bahceci said. The challenge for investors is understanding ...

Pension systems and ageing populations at crossroads

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... the ongoing reform of global pension systems, Knox said. "Whatever actual figure emerges in the next 40 years, there is little doubt that people are living longer in their older years," Knox said. "Without changes to retirement ages and ages for eligibility ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... cutting rates." Janet's willing to let inflation overshoot the Fed's target but even then recent data show that there's little risk of that happening in the very near future.

Gender inequality still the elephant in the room

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... things and there's nothing you can really point your finger on and say these are bad behaviours we need to stop. "It's the little things like using language that can potentially ostracise 50% of the population by saying 'us guys' or 'all of us guys'. ...