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BTIM posts strong half year numbers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
BT Investment Management (BTIM) has reported an after-tax net profit of $83.1 million for the half year to 31 March 2014, up 143% on the same period last year. Statutory net profit after tax was up 243% to $78.3 million while cash earnings per share ...

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors continue to overlook the diversification and growth benefits of investing in overseas shares, according to Insync head of research Marcus Tuck. While allocations have increased slightly, the latest figures for ...

Get set for FICAP's 'Who wants to be a RockStar' tonight

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
In a few short hours the wait will be over as the financial services industry rocks out in the name of charity at the Financial Industry Community Aid Program's (FICAP) annual 'Who wants to be a RockStar event'. Tonight's event will see 10 budding RockStars ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... blow up in their own faces. So what have we got? A stalemate! There'll be more tough talks ahead but it's in everyone's - except Ukraine's - best interest to let the issue fade. Calm over Crimea aside, the headlines also pointed to fresh data on US housing ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... towards a market-determined exchange rate and the central bank's intent to curb one-way bets (appreciation) in the yuan. Except for those long yuan gamblers, heard anyone complained about the Chinese currency's depreciation yet? According to Bloomberg ...

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Almost half the world's fund managers expect their institutional clients to adopt a more aggressive investment strategy in 2014, according to a global survey by Towers Watson. The survey, including responses from 128 investment managers (the majority ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... leader Mikhail Gorbachev's left behind and calls it "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Fortunately, except for the countries directly involved - Russia and Ukraine - the reaction in financial markets have been relatively sanguine. ...

ASIC accepts EU from forex broker over prohibited IMA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... (MDA). Forex FS's Australian financial services (AFS) licence prohibits it from offering a MDA service to retail clients except through a registered managed investment scheme. ASIC's investigation found the IMAs, which were opened by 34 clients and had ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... out. At the end of 2013, the A$ fetched US$0.8947. The aussie reached its highest (US$1.1030) on 27 July 2011 and then -- except for Australians travelling overseas and domestic importers and cybershoppers - it was ouch time. Just as I argued back in ...

General advice exemption "irrelevant" to advisers: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has judged the general advice exemption to conflicted remuneration "irrelevant" in its submission to Treasury about the proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA). "The AFA does not believe ...