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Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... imperative for Super Mario's return. After dropping from US$1.2104 in the beginning of this year to a low US$1.10496 in March (when the ECB commenced its €60 billion monthly bond purchases), the euro had been trending higher and reached a high of US$1.1619 ...

JBWere appoints philanthropic services head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... Executor Trustees and has also held multiple roles at Perpetual. Dass replaces David Knowles who joined Koda Capital in March, as reported in Financial Standard. JBWere's philanthropic services team was established in 2001 and is targeted at servicing ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... ($58,444). This is based on the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) retirement standards released in March 2015, although ASFA recently updated the standards. Take away the Age Pension though and couples are only expected to be 60% ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Custodians are on track reduce settlement times from three days to two days in time for the official regime change in March 2016. Firms are gearing up to start testing their readiness for the new T+2 Settlement regime in October. "Reducing settlement ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year periods, with as little volatility as possible. The strategy was established in March 2011 and since it launched it has delivered an annualised return of 4.95% net of fees to 31 July 2015. Standard Life Investments ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... first entrants, notably of Magellan Financial Group, which launched an ASX-quoted version of the Magellan Global Fund in March. The listing of this first exchange traded managed fund on ASX's AQUA platform was followed by K2 Asset Management, which listed ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... 6.0% over the same period - down from 6.8% in the previous month, yet sturdier than the 5.6% and 5.9% growth recorded in March and April and just a tad lower than May's 6.1% rate. Fixed asset investment is clearly slowing, down to 11.2% in the first ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... economy. But if these latest moves fail, QE could become an imperative. This or direct intervention -- like it did back in March last year when it doubled the yuan/US$ trading band that reversed the currency's climb. Historical precedence also doesn't ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... commodity exporting country like this land of Oz. Time and again, commodity prices have bounded - in July 2012, in July 2013, in March 2014 and in May this year --...and then faltered. With supply still in abundance and global growth still weak, a reversal ...

Magellan launches hedged global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... of distribution Frank Casarotti said. The unhedged version of the fund has grown to over $257 million since inception in March 2015 and has about 4,450 unit holders. Investors have access to live and transparent market pricing and the fund is actively ...