China continues to offer strong infrastructure investment opportunities: RARE

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RARE Infrastructure, a specialist global listed infrastructure investment manager, notes that even though June was a difficult quarter for emerging market (EM) equities, Chinese renewables rallied strongly during the quarter,... Read more continue reading

How can Artificial Intelligence be harnessed in an investment portfolio?

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) describes programming computers to perform tasks that traditionally require human intelligence. The current stage of AI is known as deep learning where artificial neural networks allow sophisticated... Read more continue reading

GROW Super announces fee-free parental leave initiative to help raise awareness of super gap issue

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GROW Super announced yesterday their fee-free parental leave initiative to raise awareness to the growing super gap with women on average retiring with nearly 40% less than their male counterparts;... Read more continue reading

As high yield bond goes global, it’s time to look more closely at this asset class

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Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), investors have operated in an era of low interest rates which have helped fuel strong growth in equities. The strong rally has even lead... Read more continue reading

How much do you need to retire comfortably?

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Three quick questions: Why do you work? How long will you work for? How much do you need to retire? Did you answer “I don’t know” to questions two and... Read more continue reading

Schroders Global Investor Study 2018: People significantly underestimating cost of living in retirement

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Key insights include: Australians expect to spend an average of 39% of their retirement income on basic living expenses — but the reality is retirees require 58%. Working Australians feel... Read more continue reading

Joust market-place eliminates the mortgage broker ‘middleman’ role

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Joust, an Adelaide based fintech that brings competitive tension to the home loan market by linking borrowers directly with over 20 lenders who compete against each other in real-time, has... Read more continue reading

Emerging markets and infrastructure – a natural partnership

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Emerging market (EM) economies are expected to grow rapidly over the next 30 years, attracting huge infrastructure investment. EMs and infrastructure are natural, complementary investment partners. Rapidly growing EM economies... Read more continue reading

Global small caps do some heavy lifting

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Australian investors and financial advisers have long understood the benefits of adding Australian small cap funds to a diversified portfolio. Those same benefits apply to global small caps – and... Read more continue reading

10 ways to protect your SMSF from loss of mental capacity

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If you have a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF), you need to plan ahead to ensure that it can still keep going if you lost mental capacity due to dementia (or... Read more continue reading