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Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...

How to win family office mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... an audience of fund managers at the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)'s Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney yesterday, four prominent family office professionals described what they look for in a hedge fund manager. Myer Family Office investment ...

Magellan sees "real tensions" in launching ASX-listed fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... on an exchange which has its own disclosure regime and requirements," Cairns said, speaking at the Bloomberg Summit yesterday. "That is not easy at all," he admitted, and added that "this is a problem that we see here, in the [United] States and everywhere ...

Hockey wants Sinodinos back

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... assistant treasurer if he is cleared of any wrongdoing by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). When asked yesterday whether he thought it was appropriate for Sinodinos to return to the frontbench, Hockey replied, "Well, of course," adding ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... here 'bout "Catalogue 6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia, Aug 2014" the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released yesterday, folks. Australia's unemployment rate dropped back to 6.1% in August after the suspect outsized 0.3 percentage point jump to ...

SMSF collapses imminent in hunt for yield

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... superannuation fund (SMSF) collapse, according to Aberdeen Asset Management (Aberdeen). Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, Aberdeen head of Australian fixed income Nick Bishop said that investors and SMSF trustees had been given a greater degree ...

Why are bonds no longer a safe haven?

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... market re-regulation, according to UBS head of investment strategy Tracey McNaughton. At a media briefing in Sydney yesterday McNaughton said that the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 and the introduction of other regulation in the wake of the ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Govt seeks discretion to freeze super guarantee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... further delay the rise of the superannuation guarantee to 12%, following the passage of legislation in the lower house yesterday. The legislation was part of a large suite of amendments labelled the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures ...

Impartiality of FWC Expert Panel challenged again

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... a member of the annual wage review rather than the superannuation expert panel, the Financial Services Council (FSC) yesterday took the opportunity to attack the credibility of the FWC commission, calling it a 'shambles'. "The FWC process is discredited ...