Last week heralded the entrance of a surprising new player into the UK pensions arena – ATP, the huge, Danish-backed pension provider.
ATP has operated the Livslang Pension in Denmark since 1964 and claims to have made average annualised returns of 7.4% over the past decade.
It’s an …
Australians are in for bad news this year as they get hit with the double whammy of bad short term superannuation returns and bad medium terms returns as the effect of the GFC rolls through the three year numbers.
This is bad news for a few reasons, primarily …
A new entrant is set to hit Australia’s currently monopolised stock market environment, with the Nomura-owned trading platform, Chi-X, to start operating next week.
Much of the debate has centered purely on the cost competition – with the ASX already moving to cut fees in anticipation of the …
For some time now, we’ve been warned about a demographic time bomb otherwise known as the Baby Boomers, those who grew up in Australia post World War II, during the 1960s and 1970s.
The fear has been that an ageing population will have ramifications for health and welfare, …
Companies are investing trillions of dollars in marketing campaigns in an attempt to win over the hearts and minds of their target customers, yet traditional advertising is simply not believed by the end consumer.
If word of mouth is still the most powerful tool in the marketing end …
Trust, a somewhat esoteric notion to measure, is the key driver of British consumer satisfaction when it comes to life insurance.
New research reveals the overall satisfaction of life insurance policy holders is primarily driven by their provider’s perceived trustworthiness.
Considering that trust is intangible and difficult to …
