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Data diarrhoea

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Super funds on track to deliver average returns for 2012-13 of 15%, the third best in the past 26 years, demonstrate how fund members who kept their nerve after the GFC are now reaping the benefits. The result is based on preliminary analysis of Rainmaker's ...

Grandfathering uncertainty already affecting businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... agreement means that the adviser won't be able to benefit from grandfathering commissions. "It is a trap for advisers, it will stop them from being able to move licensees and if their licensee does something that they don't like, they won't be able to ...

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... bit, wait and see how the markets and confidence and the economy reacts. Good reaction...another tiny snip. Bad reaction...stop snipping or roll back what was rolled back. And this is the state of play - the operative one before and after the attack ...

FPA sets out opposition to self-education cap

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... basic training, so if an adviser wants to specialise in certain areas, they will have no incentive and potentially they could stop doing any additional training and just stay with the minimum," FPA general manager of Policy and Conduct Dante De Gori ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... week. And for good measure, Mr. Lou added that, "We don't think 6.5% or 7.0% will be a big problem". Certainly! Better to stop blowing up a speculative bubble now than suffer the consequences of the pop later. Cause, like that Pringles ad, "once you ...

Women hit with double burden on retirement savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... access an aged care facility. "It is a very emotional decision: do you put your parents into an aged care facility or do you stop working and take care of them at home?," Rimmer said. According to Equity Trustees statistics, people in an aged care facility ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
It's RBA meeting day and the overwhelming consensus is for the Australian central bank to do nothing. Seems like pretty good odds to me. No doubt the Board would be talkin' bout talks of Fed tapering and yes, the talked about again China slowing as ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... of US 10-year Treasuries have fallen by 3.4% and the 'longer-duration' 30-years are down 4.6%. I'm on a roll so let's not stop there. In April this year, mining.com quoted Mr. Edwards sticking by his forecast that gold will reach US$10,000 an ounce. ...

Super tax concession policy 'fatally flawed': SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery has said current methodology used to measure superannuation tax concessions is "fatally flawed", as it does not take the entire retirement system into account. She ...