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Robo revolution to benefit human advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
Digital advice tools should be seen as an opportunity, not a threat for the traditional advice market in the United States, according to the UB-based global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. "Many industry stakeholders assume that ongoing advances ...

Perpetual grows global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
Perpetual Investments has appointed two analysts to its global equities team as it looks to grow its global equities strategy. Tim Cheung joins from Morphic Asset Management, where he was principal and head of research. Cheung has 11 years' of equities ...

Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos believes the superannuation industry will struggle to further link the facets of retirement with a suitable pension system without more investment. Speaking at the ...

Pengana finding plenty to buy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... if suitable investments can't be found. "I'm probably more bearish than most about the outlook in terms of China and US growth and these macro things. But gee we're finding things to buy. We're more fully invested than we've ever been," Kessler said. ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... inflation outlook." A quest for yield "One year ago, people thought that the global economy was going well and that US growth would be at around 3% right now. Today, it is increasing slowly and has only hit 1.5%," Goldman Sachs Asset Management chief ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... expanding at a moderate pace, with some further softening in conditions in China and east Asia of late, but stronger US growth". Though some expanded an expansion of QE this month, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) also didn't budge which, like the RBA, saw that ...

Japanese life giant to acquire rival

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Nippon Life has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Mitsui Life. Following industry speculation in August that Nippon, Japan's second-biggest life insurer, was planning to acquire Mitsui in September, the two companies have jointly announced ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... Lagarde - advice to hold off until after the New Year because, look, Christine's organisation has just downgraded the US growth outlook for this year to 2.5% from the 3.2% it predicted only three months before. Talk to the hand Christine! The financial ...

Australian market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... "There's cautiousness in the air," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital. The IMF cut its US growth projection to 2.5 per cent from the prior forecast of 3.1 per cent. IMF chief Christine Lagarde called on the Federal ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... its eurozone growth forecast to 1.5% (from 1.2%) in 2015 and 1.6% (1.4%) in 2016 while at the same time revising its US growth prediction down to 3.1% this year and the next from 3.6% in 2015 and 3.3% in 2016. 'The Economist' magazine's "poll of forecasters ...