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Australians retiring later than global peers: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023
... looked at 8550 people with at least US$100,000 in investable assets. It found that while 56% think they will have the freedom to do what they want in retirement, a startling 48% worry it will take a miracle for them to retire securely. Additionally ...

Top investment products, super fund revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2021
... again with a base and max rate of 1.1%. In terms of the best-value flexible home loans, G&C Mutual, Macquarie Bank and Freedom Lend provide the most competitive rates. G&C Mutual Bank offers 2.21% with no establishment fee and a 100% offset account ...

Pension plan sued for expensive, active strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... actively-managed options Freedom funds were "riskier and more costly" than the "substantially less costly and less risky" Freedom Index funds. Among the allegations, the 401(k) failed to compare the active and index options and consider respective benefits ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... increased by only 2 persons since mid-April. Not only has this allowed China to re-open, it's also given central command freedom to turn its attention on re-growing the economy. Not only that, the Shanghai Composite index rallied by 5.7% after Reuters ...

Argo Investments' profit plunges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... as adding to existing holdings. These include investments in Amcor, AP Eagers, Corporate Travel Management, Downer EDI, Freedom Foods, Ramsay Health Care, Rural Funds Group, Treasury Wine Estates and Tassal Group. Argo fully exited its position in Automotive ...

2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... This is called active risk and is measured by the portfolio's tracking error. They give the investment manager greater freedom to include their particular investment insights in the portfolio. Obviously if their investment thesis turns out to be correct ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... political uncertainty removed - last week's Dutch elections where Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) defeated the far-right leader Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection of ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... government spending on "physical infrastructure" infrastructure", and on "skills, education, technology, the ability and freedom to respond to incentives, the ability to adapt and the willingness to take on risk". But alas! The Prime Minister and the ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... mechanisms put in place in order to slow down that growth of property prices, then the RBA will have a greater degree of freedom in relation to potentially cutting rates further. "The real driver will be if unemployment continues to go up and inflation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... an operational update. IAG, UGL, Flight Centre, Perpetual, Ardent Leisure, Federation Centres, PAS Group, Nick Scali, Freedom Foods have their annual general meetings scheduled. Toll Group has an investor day. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed ...
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