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Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
Central banks are running out of road. If governments ask them to continue down the path of previously unthinkable monetary policy without implementing fiscal policies of their own, there are likely to be severe unintended consequences for the global ...

Australian system needs "substantial reassessment": SEC veteran

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... wagons when the regulators came. And that led to more organisations and individuals coming forward and breaking up that circle." Thomas added that one of the most successful programs was for whistleblowers, which involved the creation of the SEC's Office ...

Is tapping into super to pay off student debt a good idea?

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
As the discussion about the 'objective of superannuation' continues it has now circled around to the issue of whether people should be allowed to tap into their super in order to pay-off current student debt or to pay for tertiary education which has ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... and business investment leads to slower growth, greater downward pressure on prices and inflation expectations and so the circle goes. The ECB is sure to act next week, it must.

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
As the transition to MySuper continues, lifecycle funds are becoming a popular default investment option. Darren Snyder explores this evolving market. Earlier this year a joint paper by AustralianSuper and the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... and other currencies - necessitating even more stimulus from other central banks and then we go round and round "like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel..." Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore... we're stuck in Hotel California. "You can ...

Star global equity manager to launch in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Channel Capital allows us to do this efficiently and our participation in the Future Generation initiative creates a virtuous circle. That's a good place to start. "Our goal is to help investors achieve their long-term goals. A key differentiator is ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... people who were working in the same area as me. We had lecturers who were working in the markets, so that created a nice circle of wisdom and it meant we could bring to class real problems that we were facing at the time," Wills explains. His first job ...

Super decades away from maturity

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... have weighed in on how super will progress from its relatively successful childhood. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle on Friday, BT Financial Group chief executive Brad Cooper said governments, policymakers, academics, researchers, the superannuation ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... challenges post the global financial crisis (GFC) and many stalled their custody reviews. Now custody has almost come full circle with a raft of recent mandates and some major announcements due in the near future, including at NSW TCorp and Telstra Super ...