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Changes in board culture, key to avoid risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
The boards of the companies in the financial services industry must change their culture and look at the "big picture" if they want to avoid risk and achieve stable growth, Risk Board suggested. Risk Board, an organisation created in 2011 to advise ...

Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
Institutional investors expect the highest returns from equities this year, as government bonds are increasingly called into question. An Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey of 730 senior institutional investors in Australia and around the world ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...We must be over the rainbow!" -Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) And if not, we're surely on our way...and a pot of gold awaits (the metaphorical one of course, not the metal that's now in a bear market). Forget ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained on positive US jobless figures. At 0754 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 5,127. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Zenith rates Macquarie global fund as 'Recommended'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The Analytic Global Managed Volatility Fund offered by Macquarie Professional Series received a 'Recommended' rating from Zenith. The fund aims to reduce the volatility of the MSCI World index, while meeting or exceeding the return of the index. The ...

Practitioners ill equipped for business sale

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
Market uncertainty and regulatory strain are leading to an increasing number of financial planners considering selling their practices, according to Centurion Market Makers director Chris Wrightson. The financial advice business broking specialist said ...

NZ Super sells forestry assets to Chinese state owned company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZSF) has sold a portfolio of 11 forestry blocks in New Zealand's North Island to a Chinese state owned logging group. NZSF general manager of investments, Matt Whineray said selling the forest blocks would enable ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after strong rises on international markets overnight as traders focused on corporate earnings and brushed aside weaker-than-expected economic data out of Germany and China. At 0744 AEST on Wednesday, the ...

Fund managers tip great returns on US investments

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
Global investment chiefs have tipped US equities to be the investment darling of the year, according to a survey by Fidelity Worldwide Investment. Fidelity canvassed the opinions of 13 global fund groups including: HSBC Global Asset Management, Threadneedle ...

Facebook users moving on

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
Just as wealth management and superannuation marketers have begun adapting to social media platforms such as Facebook, signs are emerging that the consumer market may already be moving on. The Socialmedia Today forum in the US has just published an ...