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Mercer issues super fund imperatives

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... up the priority list for the industry as a whole, but the market is still immature and the range of solutions is thin. We hope to see a strong increase in the number of tailor-made post-retirement offerings that have so far been limited in the absence ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... least, very, very close to it). The yen has risen from last year's low of Â¥125.63 per US$ to Â¥114.43 overnight. The hope is that a bigger negative on interest rates would stop capital inflows and depress yen. Stronger yen equals weak exports (especially ...

AIA revamps digital strategy

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
AIA Australia hopes to change the way people engage with life insurance by personalising products and focusing on storytelling. Following an extensive review of the company's digital presence by global design and strategy firm Frog, AIA Australia plans ...

New hope for DomaCom Kidman bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
DomaCom's offer to acquire the pastoral empire that is Kidman Station has been given a shot in the arm with S.Kidman & Co reopening the company's sale to Australian investors. DomaCom chief executive officer Arthur Naoumidis said the announcement endorsed ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
"The same old story It's been told much too much before The same old story But it's worth telling just once more..." - Billie Holiday Perhaps she didn't want to add rattle to an already jittery market. Perhaps she didn't want to deviate from the Fed ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... surprisingly, industrial production retreated by 1.6% in the year to December from zero growth in the previous month. The hope is that the BOJ's introduction of negative interest rates would ease current upward pressure on the Japanese yen while at the ...

Chi-X Australia being acquired by private equity firm

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... service and trade execution performance will continue to drive positive change and improve markets where they operate. We hope to accelerate this growth through continued enhancements to the platform, including new investment products and markets, and ...

Limited AFSLs like "part-time surgeons"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Accountants with limited Australian financial services licences are like "part-time surgeons," according to John Birt, principal of advice M&A broker Radar Results. Birt branded limited AFS licenses "dangerous" and argued that in order for accountants ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Lift-off is literally - and for all intents and purposes - yesterday's news. It's now another day and speculations would slowly trickle over how "gradual" the pace of subsequent US Fed rate hikes would be over the course of the following year and thereafter. ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Dear oh dear, the opening lines I intended to scribble on this momentous day have all been taken. "We have lift off". The Sydney Morning Herald already had first dibs. "The Fed Awakens". Not a chance, The Economist magazine got in first. "End of an ...