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Aon appoints director to super board

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Aon Hewitt has appointed a former KPMG partner to be an independent director to the board of its superannuation business. Trevor Allen became chair of the audit sub-committee as well as a director to the Aon Superannuation trustee board on 1 January. ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

QIC hires senior infrastructure execs

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
QIC has hired two senior infrastructure executives to lead its US and UK/European infrastructure operations. Geoff Chatas will lead the infrastructure business in North America from the firm's New York City office and Giles Tucker will lead the UK and ...

FSC supports longer threshold for unclaimed life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has applauded the Treasury's decision to extend the unclaimed life insurance threshold back to seven years. Since 2012, bank accounts and life insurance policies could be inactive for three years ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street surged more than one per cent following the Federal Reserve's statement on interest rates. At 0815 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,880. ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
"Word has finished searching the selection. The search item was not found. Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" Yes please, sir. Nah, it still couldn't find "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I ...

Legg Mason Brandywine fund awarded top rating

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
The Legg Mason Brandywine Global Opportunistic Fixed Income Trust has been awarded a 'Highly Recommended' rating from research house Zenith. The product was the only one to achieve the top rating in Zenith's 2015 sector review of global fixed income ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Australian investment professionals are among the most pessimistic in the world when it comes to expectations of future employment, with nearly a quarter saying that the situation is getting worse, the CFA Institute found. The 2015 Global Market Sentiment ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

CalPERS meetings open to members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Australian pension funds, both not-for-profit and retail, may pride themselves on their governance and transparency but US pension fund giant CalPERS shows how far behind they are on world's best practice. CalPERS, the A$375 billion California public ...