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Frydenberg sets fuse on Trowbridge time bomb

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has started his countdown for the risk advice industry to get its house in order before the government takes action - and the industry doesn't have long. Speaking at a BT-sponsored Financial Services Council (FSC) ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Australia can expect a drop in foreign earnings and a drag on growth this year according to the International Monetary Fund's most recent World Economic Outlook. The IMF said the downturn in the global commodity cycle is continuing to hit Australia's ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Investors plan to up active allocation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
Australian investors want to increase their allocation to active management over the next 12 months, according to a new survey from Franklin Templeton Investments. The global fund manager asked more than 100 attendees at its recent Asia Pacific Investor ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
Crrr-unch! That's the sound of China's trade numbers collapsing. And it was a thunderous thud, Virginia. The country's trade surplus shrank to US$3.08 billion in March from $60.6 bil in February and expectations for a US$40 bil print. With imports dropping ...

Europe and Japan becoming preferred equity markets

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Both Credit Suisse and Standard Life Investments have updated their global outlooks for 2015, highlighting a growing preference for Japanese and European equities. These markets have benefited from recovery after weak growth in 2014; profits growth ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
The Australian share market is again flirting with the landmark 6,000 point level, which it has not reached in more than seven years. The release of monthly trade balance figures for China later on Monday could give Australian stocks a boost, if it ...

China slowdown will hit Australia

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
A Chinese economic slowdown will hit Australia as iron ore prices tumble, the World Bank says. The bank noted that Australia's growth pace had deteriorated sharply since the first quarter of 2014 as declining prices for key export commodities depressed ...

Future Generation fund adds more big names

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Future Generation Investment Company (FGX) has beefed up its board with the addition of four well-known industry figures. Paradice Asset Management founder David Paradice, Victor Smorgon Group chief financial officer David Leeton, Greenstone Partners' ...

Advisers turning to annuities for longevity risk

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
An increasing number of financial advisers are recommending annuities to address growing concerns about longevity risk, according to Investment Trends' December 2014 Retirement Planner Report. The report, based on a survey of 617 financial advisers ...