Restraining the growing super leviathan
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If the next stage of the super guarantee happens, Australia could be lumped with a bloated $9 trillion super industry by 2030.
If the next stage of the super guarantee happens, Australia could be lumped with a bloated $9 trillion super industry by 2030.
US Fed chair Janet Yellen's comments on allowing the economy to run hot deepened the bond market rout as traders bet the bank would tolerate higher inflation.
With the end of cheap money in sight, safe havens such as bonds, infrastructure and property trusts are not looking so secure.
Investors are either snapping up exchange traded funds or shifting their asset mix and moving away from Australian share funds.
A sharp sell-off in government bonds has set alarm bells ringing that the end of the low-rate world is high. Don't believe the hype.
The biggest deal in financial markets right now is the high stakes battle over the right level for long-term risk-free interest rates.
Maple-Brown Abbott now has almost $11 billion funds under management
The NSW government's planned $100 million-plus privatisation of superannuation administrator Pillar has hit a snag.
A proposed law change linking super to "comfort" in retirement sounds good but it opens the way to political interference, David Murray says...
AustralianSuper and TPG have got the band back together.
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