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FoFA changes, an improvement to advice businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Features such as the fee for service provision in the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation are an improvement to financial planning businesses and are attractive to customers, some advisers are saying. "I am transitioning to a fee for service ...

One-third of US federal workers could retire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
Recovering pension account balances in the US is triggering a rush of US federal employees to retire, with as many as one-third of some agencies expected to leave their jobs. Helping to restore confidence in their pension funds is that the US pension ...

AMP Capital raises US$300m for infra debt fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
AMP Capital has raised more than US$300 million from 17 international institutional investors for its AMP Capital Infrastructure Debt Fund II (IDF II). The IDF II follows AMP Capital's first infrastructure debt fund, which attracted US$503 million from ...

Demographic megatrends drive earnings well into the future

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... highlighted that unexpected things happen and the distant future is a hazy place to understand. The further out you try and predict, the less stable your assumptions about the future become. According to Natoff and Stafford however, demographic trends ...

Biggest weekly drop since and other scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013

Super fund fortunes shift on FX exposure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... to 88%. But uncertainty abounds. "An overwhelming majority of respondents - 80% in fact - think that nobody is able to predict where the currency will be in 12 months' time," Hampton said. "Nonetheless, there is some agreement about the broad currency ...

Can cheap, high quality stocks can still be found?

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
The world's largest and best-known defensive companies may look overvalued but that doesn't mean investors should give up on finding quality businesses with predictable earnings and capital preservation potential, according to AllianceBernstein senior ...

Accountants expected to flood advice space

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013

Who do you trust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013

Run China run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013