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Australians putting off retirement planning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... or speculation of changes to the rules governing superannuation do not instil confidence in what for most people is a 40-plus year time frame. Factor in the volatile share market and the complex terminology used in superannuation, and this makes long-term ...

Economic experts still defensive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... continued to be one of slower-than-usual growth. "It's in much the same situation as the global economy, with growth constrained, plus there is the impact of lower commodity prices, although there has been some support to the economy from house building," ...

Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... contributions," Griffiths said. He added modern defined contributions super schemes rely on pre-tax contributions from employers, plus any largely pre-tax salary sacrifice contributions from the employee, with all contributions being taxed at 15% upon ...

Prime Super awards multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... secondarily through alpha generated from selected investment strategies," according to PineBridge's statement, and to deliver CPI plus 5% (before fees) per annum over five-year periods. "We chose PineBridge for this mandate as it has a strong investment ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... global economies, there's also the incidence of increased terrorism. All these were already happening in the third quarter - plus, remember the sharp volatility in China's stock market, the surprise devaluation of the yuan and... the Australian equity ...

TAL Direct business penalised for advertising

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... been fined by ASIC for false or misleading advertising. Specifically, the advertising suggested that the Income Protection Plus product provided "illness and injury cover up to 85% of income to $10,000 a month" in the case of "Kylie", who had to take ...

Pinebridge absolute return fund rated by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... before fees over rolling five-year periods. The Lonsec report noted: "PineBridge has an established track record in inflation-plus investing. The investment team is experienced and has shown good levels of stability among its senior members. The team's ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... further into negative territory, to between minus 1.25% and minus 0.25%, from the current range of between minus 0.75% and plus 0.25%". While the franc has slowly drifted lower and has weakened substantially against the greenback (as would be expected ...

Cbus appoints ESG investment manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... monitoring ESG risks that could result from environmental and social conditions, liabilities and regulations of the $10 billion plus GE Capital Asia financial portfolio. She also actively represented GE Capital in working groups and forums such as the ...

mFund take-up slower than expected

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... equities (20.1%) and global equities (16.5%). The top five funds transacted during the period were the Schroder Real Return CPI Plus 5% Wholesale (23.5%), the AMP Capital Corporate Bond (22.6%), the Schroder Fixed Income Wholesale (19.5%), the Ibbotson ...