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Ending super gender gap needs collective approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
One single strategy will not be enough to end the superannuation savings gap between men and women, industry stakeholders have concluded. Submissions to the Senate inquiry into 'Economic security for women in retirement' show that the industry is asking ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
We all know the saying, "it ain't over till the fat lady sings", well, last night... she did. Read her lips and hear her sonata: "Were the FOMC to delay the start of policy normalization for too long, we would likely end up having to tighten policy ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... and it's much closer to home....and it's name is shutdown. Yes Virginia, the prospect of another shutdown of the US government looms - the country's lawmakers have only until 30 September (a full week) to pass a new budget for their fiscal year that ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... Del Rey says the insights Capital Preferences has learnt from these 'fingerprints' has attracted the attention of US government researchers, who believe the findings can help shape retirement policy. The data the group has collected reveal, for instance ...

SIV opens door to China for fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
The revised Significant Investor Visa (SIV) will undoubtedly bring benefits to parts of the economy in need of investment but also knock-on opportunities for fund managers specialising in the scheme to get access to investments in China. The new rules ...

More Australians to invest in China

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... political ramifications of holding a significant amount of its nearly $4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves in US government bonds. To mitigate this, he said, more of China's claims on the US should be denominated in RMB, and "one way for China to ...

Gold stocks undervalued but likely to rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... and the next. "In the US, financial-market and monetary policy risk remain. In the current low-growth recovery the US Government has piled up trillions of dollars of debt that looks like it is here to stay," he said, and added that "we like to think ...

FEATURE: Guiding the way to aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
The new aged care reforms have brought in revised rules and more complex scenarios. Against this backdrop advisers will become even more necessary, particularly as more Australians consider their and their families' aged care needs, Laura Millan writes. ...

Intra-fund advice exemptions in doubt

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Industry super funds could face stricter rules around block charging members for financial advice if the Senate blocks the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has said. Singling out exemptions ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...