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Top boutique in first push for new investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
One of the top performing fund managers in Australia, Ophir Asset Management, is looking to partner with family offices and independent financial advisers in a bid to attract long-term high net worth investors. From inception in August 2012 to the end ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...

Proliferation of global equity products meet investor demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... possible influences, such as "attractive past returns from the sector, waning domestic market performance, and a general push for portfolio diversification." Record low yields and slow, recovering economic growth has resulted in investors struggling ...

Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... super funds and regulators work towards several disclosure deadlines in 2017, industry representative groups continue to push the political reform agenda so enhancements can be made with an overarching aim to make superannuation easier to navigate and ...

Elders gains QLD practice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Elders Financial Planning has added its seventh practice to the Elders network. Toowoomba based Total Wealth Group has joined the Elders dealer group, the seventh practice Elders has added over the last five months as the group pushes for growth in ...

MySuper insurance widely misunderstood

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... insurance manager for Jardine Lloyd Thompson, backed his co-panelists. "It needs to be simplified and we need to continue the push around plain English. Salary continuance absolutely needs to be included and shorter waiting periods are needed. Less really ...

Storm Financial investor slams court decision

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
The joint chair of the Storm Investors Consumer Action Group has criticised the Federal Court's recent ruling against Storm Financial. Seven years after going into administration, Storm Financial has been found by the court to have provided inappropriate ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
It's live! It'll be one of those Septembers to remember. This, Virginia, is if you believe many (not most) of the post-Jackson Hole commentaries that littered world wide web dissecting US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's words. She said so many things, so many ...

Sunsuper continues push into adviser market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Sunsuper has appointed two new business development managers (BDM) and launched an online portal for financial advisers. Alessandra Bertora and William Burke both joined the Queensland-based company last month, charged with "growing Sunsuper's membership ...

Millennials face gender inequality shock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... treatment that is unfair, unpleasant or even discriminatory. Beattie added that while there are women who are motivated to push through instances of gendered behaviour or might naturally bend to the more masculine stereotypes that get rewarded in the ...