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Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... Opening the ASFA event was research director at the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR), Dr Geoffrey Warren, who put forward several ways super funds and investment managers could address short-term thinking. Among Warren's six ideas ...

VFMC begins search for new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... chief executive after announcing the departure of its current leader. The VFMC board announced today that chief executive Warren Lee will depart at the conclusion of his current term and will assist in the transition over the next few months. Lee began ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... hubris that pulls 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 ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... repayment to the ECB is due. China happy, Europe happy, Wall Street happy - the S&P 500 up 1.3% -- happier still courtesy of Warren. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is reportedly buying Precision Castparts' scripts - reviving market focus on M&A deals. Gotta ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... surveyed as part of a broader research project in to MySuper default funds, led by CIFR research director Doctor Geoff Warren. "Around two-thirds of the members surveyed made some kind of choice: either choosing their fund provider, or their investment ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... assets will increase to US$15.3 trillion ($20.4 trillion) by the end of the decade. At the same time, investment magnate Warren Buffett has warned that institutions increasing allocations to alternatives is a "fool's game" due to high headline fees and ...

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... re-introduced into the US Senate. The legislation has been sponsored by GOP, Democrat and Independent Senators Elizabeth Warren, John McCain, Maria Cantwell and Angus King. A statement issued by the fiercely pro-consumer and Wall Street protagonist Senator ...

SMSFs to access Berkshire Hathaway from Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) will be able to access Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway from Australia. MDS Financial-owned Sequoia Specialist Investments has launched a number of structured products that provide exposure to the performance of Berkshire ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... dividends have been quite substantial. "The management team at AB Inbev are a lot of the same people who are now working with Warren Buffett," Kotecha said. "They deliver uprating margins in whatever they're doing and it's always above the industry average. ...

Shares stronger at noon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... Financial stocks were giving the market a boost, with Insurance Australia Group leaping up on the news that billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying a $500 million stake in it. IAG was up 20 cents, or 3.6 per cent, to $5.77, and Suncorp ...