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Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... markets' fear gauge hasn't seen the mid-20's level since June 2012 - and yes, this was again due to Grexit and contagion -- except for the jump to 26.3 in mid-October last year ahead of the Fed's final taper decision that was confirmed and announced ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... has been in recession since 2008. If so, why so? Why has the Australian equity market outperformed its most of its peers (except for the Eurozone - the Stoxx 600 is up 11.4% this year to date -- which is in the midst of throwing bucket loads of money ...

MLC promotes retail platform GM from within

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
MLC has promoted Kathy Vincent to the role of general manager, retail wealth platforms. Vincent joined MLC in 2012 with more than 20 years of financial services experience. She has led the company's retail investment platforms strategy team since 2012 ...

Pershing upgrades to Broadridge processing solution

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
BNY Mellon-owned Pershing Securities Australia has adopted the Broadridge's Australian post-trade processing solution as its new middle- and back-office processing platform for third-party domestic clearing. The solution is designed to increase process ...

401(k) plans to reach $6trn by 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Total private defined contribution (DC) assets in the US are expected to surpass $6 trillion in 2018, according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates. "Our projections indicate that, by the end of the decade, total private DC ...

Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
A life insurance policy has more in common with car insurance policies than with an investment portfolio and therefore risk advisers should be kept separate from other financial planners, Synchron director Don Trapnell argued. "For some reason, risk ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... 2.5% cash rate for 18 months now and indications are it has done bugger all for the economy of this land girth by sea... except for stoking the property prices, that is. So much so that three of the country's big four banks - ANZ, NAB and Westpac - are ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... barrel. US$30 per barrel here we come... or US$20... or even lower. Oil prices have traded below US$20 before you know. Except for a brief spike to a bit over US$40 in late 1990 (yes, spike), oil fetched between US$9.50 a barrel to US$25 a barrel from ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... was to lift the education requirements for financial planners. Following CBA's announcement, all major advice businesses except for ANZ announced they would increase their own standards and establish mandatory membership of advice associations for their ...

Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Incoming TWUSUPER chief executive Paul Sayer has questioned the motivation of the Royal Commission into Union Governance and Corruption, urging the commissioner to take a balanced view in his initial findings, which are due out on Monday. Just over ...