 Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012 Neil Armstrong, Robert Hughes, Murray Rose: Three great people who unfortunately parted this mortal coil too soon in recent months. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012 The Productivity Commission last month handed down its draft report on default superannuation funds, and while its recommendations were predictable, they nonetheless represent big wins and yet severe threats for both sides of the industry. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012 It's almost two years since we Apple-ised our home and we haven't looked back even for a second. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012 It's the beginning of the end for superannuation. Not because poor returns have shattered members' confidence or that they have started to believe the negativity about superannuation from the industry itself and abandoned ship. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012 If the government changes hands next year, the disaffiliated HSU and the scandal it unleashed that has not only shaken the union movement to its foundations but embroiled the regulator Fair Work Australia in having to defend itself against conflict ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012 Customer segmenting in Australian financial services organisations may not be as developed as we thought. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012 Last week the government released the long awaited report on the Gonski Review into education funding in Australia and if wealth managers think it's got nothing to do with them they should think again. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012 In 1800 China, the world's longest running civilisation, was a global powerhouse controlling one-third of the world economy. The Middle Kingdom's wealth shaded even the combined might of Western Europe. The just-born US was barely troubling the scorers ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011 I was wrong. I used to think super fund returns stuck in the doldrums was bad enough and worse is that these returns are 90% correlated with share markets. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011 What do you call a superannuation prudential regulator that has no powers to prudentially regulate super funds? An APRA. For years we've been bluffed, suckered. All this time we thought APRA was the superannuation cop on the beat and then it turns out ... Read more |
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