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No end in sight for renminbi rally

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... criteria, which is openness and financial-market depth," explained Briscoe. Internationalising the currency is one of the goals under the country's five-year plan and, in early September 2012, Dai Xianglong, a former People's Bank of China governor ...

CalPERS awards $500m multi-asset mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... portfolio, and to our investment operations by bringing in an outside perspective as we work toward our long-term investment goals," commented CalPERS chief investment officer Joseph Dear. CalPERS is the largest public pension fund in the U.S. with approximately ...

MLC launches retirement stress test tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... different market conditions. Advisers will be able to adjust factors such as superannuation contributions and retirement goals, as well as hitting the portfolio with market shocks to stress test clients' savings and income under different scenarios. ...

Super members fail to top-up amid 'perfect storm'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... half of the respondents understood how much money they will need to have at retirement age in order to meet their lifestyle goals (51.6 per cent - up from 48.7 per cent the previous year), only one third of respondents (32.1 per cent) said that they ...

BFO board adds Vamos and Chronican

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... wrongdoing and supporting others who do the same, serving all interests in good faith, competing with honour and pursuing goals with ethical restraint.

ICI chief blasts US transaction tax legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... that any such tax could harm individual fund investors who are investing to meet retirement, education, and other financial goals. For fund investors, the ICI believes a securities transaction tax would raise the cost of trades that a fund makes for ...

Vanguard cuts costs on intl equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... industry because low costs are not a marketing ploy - our expense ratios are not driven up or down based on market share goals or revenue targets," he said. "This fee reduction is a function of Vanguard's mutual corporate structure in the US which allows ...

CheckRisk opens in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... Instead it's only concerned with factors that are impacting the likelihood that the fund may not achieve its investment goals," he said. "This is done by analysing portfolios and hundreds of other factors to assess whether it's at odds with the market." ...

Funds unlikely to follow HOSTPLUS to PST

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... the industry were working out ways to give their members more choice, as well as ways to cater to individual retirement goals, as an increasing number move into the self-managed sector. HOSTPLUS aims to launch the new model in the latter half of 2013 ...

AMP Capital to tempt investors out of cash and TDs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... "AMP Capital has a range of investment products that meet the needs of investors regardless of risk profile and retirement goals or where they are in the investment lifecycle," he said.