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Macquarie Wrap launches FDS

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... different client segments. They can also include and exclude certain information and it features numerous text fields to add in extra details if required. Advisers can also view the last date that an FDS was generated for any particular account. Macquarie ...

Advisers' Twitter usage doubles in 18 months

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
Growth in social media usage by Australian financial advisers has far outstripped the growth experienced in the community overall, according to new statistics from Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich). Zurich general manager of life and investments ...

Pressure on benchmark affects managers performance: Cuffe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
The pressure on fund managers to outperform benchmarks in the short term could be preventing them from achieving high returns, UniSuper chairman and founding director of Third Link Investment Managers Chris Cuffe said. "It is hard to get alpha and I ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Dive! Dive! Dive! You've heard the news - our very own currency is top of the pops no more, it's made one hell of celebrity splash over the past week as it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down ...

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Warren Buffett praises Fed stimulus measures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
Legendary investor Warren Buffett praised the US Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus measures at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting in Nebraska. Buffett, who is chairman and chief executive of the global conglomerate, said that the decision ...

Plans to close large UK defined benefit angers members

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... which had been rejected by Axa. The union estimates that the closure of the scheme would see employees having to work an extra five years to achieve the same retirement pay out.

PIF Action Group questions ASIC decision on Wellington

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) decision to drop the investigation into the Wellington Premium Income Fund (PIF) has angered the PIF Action Group. PIF Action Group president Peter Grenadier told Financial Standard that in ...

Changes in board culture, key to avoid risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have brought extra costs to superannuation funds, insurers, fund managers and banks, which now see the need to operate more efficiently ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... the Dow and the S&P 500 proceeded on their merry way on the up and up with both ending the trading day with more than 1.0% extra in their kitties. Because going by my trustee Bloomberg's headlines, the US is now on a "firmer footing". Headline: "Sales ...