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Majority of Australians without financial plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... planning week revealed more than two in five Australians (63%) did not have a financial plan for their future and a quarter had never sought financial advice from a professional or other contact when making financial decisions. FPA chief executive, Dante ...

Blue Sky founder departs, new MD appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... a consultant for Bain and Company. Blue Sky chair John Kain said Sowerby's decision came as a result of "there [having] never been a more appropriate time for Mark to step back to spend time with his family. "Mark and his family have sacrificed much ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... Grow doesn't expect that day to come anytime soon, if at all. "People are being dazzled by the headlines. In my career I never thought people would be fearful of bonds. The reasons for holding bonds have not changed. The ways managers make money in bond ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all closed at record highs on the 11th of August - a feat not seen since New Year's Eve 1999. Never mind the comparison with history, statistical probability dictates that this was bound to happen sometime. What's "spectacular" ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy believes it is within most people's means to better understand and engage with their superannuation. It is this mantra that will help shape the corporate super fund. Every time Michael Clancy steps off a Qantas ...

Maple-Brown Abbott fund gets ratings tick

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... proven track record of investing across a range of market conditions. "The demand for defensive investment solutions has never been greater. Whilst there are a number of listed infrastructure products in this space; we see the fund as a truly differentiated ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... began her career in investment analytics on the institutional desk of AMP Henderson Global Investors in Sydney. Perhaps never really supressing the urge to be in front of an audience, Bouch soon found herself presenting her analysis to portfolio managers. ...

Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... wanted." In his opening statement at the EGM, LIM Advisors director and portfolio manager Nick Paris argued that his firm had never wanted to see the fund dissolved; instead, LIM had suggested a number of improvements for the fund, including making it ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Australia's record beef exports Australia exported a record 267,578 tonnes of grainfed beef in 2015-16, up 15% year-on-year. This is 4,618 tonnes higher than the previous record in 2006-07, according to the Meat and Livestock Association. The MLA said ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
Inflation crashes to 1pct The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in the June quarter 2016, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures. This follows a fall of 0.2% in the March quarter 2016. Annual inflation is now just 1.0% ...