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1 May 2015

Tax aware investment management, how the banking industry is being disrupted, good reasons to insure your children, managing internal fraud risk, the search for 'safe' yield in defensive stocks driving prices and Labor's proposal to tax pension earnings.

Value of tax-aware investment management

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1 May 2015
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The investment performance of super funds and other investment managers has historically been measured against pre-tax indices. Once tax is taken into account, the return on investments is quite different.

Disruptive technology in banking

Michael Birch
1 May 2015
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A seismic shift is happening right under the banks’ noses. Tech companies with leading brands, customer loyalty and sizeable balance sheets are adding banking products and financial services to their broad array of offerings.

Ensure your children are insured

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1 May 2015
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Serious illness is something we think will happen to somebody else and insurance, like making a will, is easy to put off. It’s only when the problems start that we realise it’s too late to do anything about it.

The ‘low versus no’ risk appetite for internal fraud

Tony Prior
1 May 2015

The risk of internal fraud is a commercial reality of doing business, but how does a financial institution manage the optics of a low risk appetite and still communicate the message to employees that it is not ‘open slather’?

Low rates and the equity risk premium

Sam Ferraro
1 May 2015

With investors gravitating towards ‘safer’ equities for yield, the equity risk premium is playing an important role in the variance of earnings multiples between defensive and cyclical sectors of the Australian equity market.

Labor is proposing a complex ‘new tax’

Stuart Forsyth
1 May 2015
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A response to Labor’s proposal to tax superannuation earnings of more than $75,000 during retirement phase from a former Assistant Deputy Commissioner for the ATO who has seen it all before.

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