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AMP offers Adviser Academy course via Griffith

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
AMP has redesigned its Horizons adviser education program and is now offering its Adviser Academy course through Griffith University. Changes in the redesign of the course include: raising entry standards to a degree equivalent, provisioning for graduates ...

FinaMetrica in robo advice deal with Swiss private bank

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... tolerance through a number of questions. The system then comes up with a score that takes into account investors' time horizons, their capacity for loss, risk tolerance, knowledge of investments and investment experience. The end scores are mapped to ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... says A£40 billion ($87 billion) is "shovel-ready." The projects themselves suit a range of investors with different horizons, return expectations and attitudes to risk and include projects both in London and in regional centres. Specifically they include ...

Divestment could reach $50bn in five years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... $59 trillion in investment capital - are now taking these factors into account when allocating capital over these time horizons. Given that young people joining a superannuation fund today may be in their fund for up to 70 years if you include their ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... tool. The tool allows consumers to input their existing assets (if any), answer questions on desired outcomes and time horizons and then compare available investment portfolios based on what InvestSMART managing director Ron Hodge described as "expert ...

Financial planning director to leave AMP

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... to thank him for his commitment and loyalty," Caprioli said. "[He] was the driving force behind the creation of AMP's Horizons Academy and has led the way in improving education standards for advisers, not just within AMP, but across the industry," he ...

CML launches $25m corporate bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... professional investors. "This is a market that is going from strength to strength as SMSFs and financial planners expand their horizons to find fixed-income assets that pay more realistic yields than the 2% available on term deposits," FIIG chief executive ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... we will see some growth, but not as rapid as before." This means that "more than ever we need to have long investment horizons, look at the themes and at who's making the changes." Similarly, Saxo Capital Markets published a bearish outlook for Asia ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... opportunities that come and go? Rieder says we should examine financial asset markets "within a framework of varying time horizons". Short-term horizons correspond to where markets are experiencing short-term dislocations (throwing up investment opportunities). ...

AMP's Hillross crowns best advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... said. Sue Morris of Hillross Northern Wealth, in Sydney, was awarded the New Adviser of the Year. A graduate of AMP's Horizons Academy, Morris started working at Hillross in January 2014 and quickly developed a niche market to help divorced women provide ...