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PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... our firm down," the former investment banker asserts. "It's important to stay grounded. There's a reason Warren Buffett never left Omaha. Markets are incredibly humbling. If you start believing in your own hype, you're going to get caught out." Douglass ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
News that China has revised its 2014 growth estimate from 7.4% -- the lowest in almost 25 years and missing its 7.5% target for that year - to 7.3% may have raised only a few eyebrows but it certainly added fuel to accusations that the People's Bank ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... their money in a retail or industry fund. And if you look at the stats, so many SMSFs are invested in cash because trustees never got around to appropriately investing, so the returns haven't been great." Vanguard head of market strategy and communications ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... executive has watched interest grow across the investment spectrum, from large institutions to retail accumulators, but he's never seen any definitive industry-wide proof - of the dollars in funds under management variety - that managed accounts have ...

APRA trustee reforms, definition of independence yet to be finalised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
APRA has released a discussion paper detailing the government's proposals for more independent trustees on super fund boards while conceding the definition of independence is yet to be finalised. The proposed changes to trustee operations have divided ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
"You say it best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single ...

Price is wrong for supermarket super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
Over three quarters (76.3%) of Australians would never consider a Coles or Woolworths public offer superannuation fund, according to CoreData research. Based on a survey of 847 respondents, CoreData's 2015 Member Engagement Report also suggested that ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... "Crowd equity funding is a social phenomenon. Through its use of social media, it has attracted people who have previously never been interested in investing in companies. "Instead of being feared, this interest should be nurtured through the promotion ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... Bullard, the president of the St. Louis Fed, on Thursday". Sure, our former friend Ben went ahead and ended QE but we'll never know whether Benny would have been able to had Bullard not verbally intervened and stopped the downward momentum on Wall Street ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... do not influence the advice provided to retail clients are not caught by the ban on conflicted remuneration, when it was never intended that they would be," Frydenberg said. "As I have said before, once these announced refinements are all fully legislated ...