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Mercer expands infrastructure team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... years, including engagements for some of the largest pension and institutional investors in Australia, Asia and North America. "Our work has spanned manager selection and due diligence, strategic portfolio construction work, secondary investing, and ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... dipped instead of dropped. What's a man have do to get a bigger dip to buy these days? For not even the good stats out of America overnight can make it drop - pending home sales soared to their highest level one month short of a year, weekly jobless ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
It didn't happen overnight, but it is happening. The S&P 500 index flirted above its 2,000-point milestone -2001.95 points to be exact in intra-day trade - before closing at 1997.92 points. There's always tomorrow. With just another 2.1 points (0.1%) ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
"Ain't no value high enough, ain't no Putin tough enough, ain't no ISIS mad enough" to keep investors away from Wall Street and... Yes I know it's a double negative (but that's how the song goes and you know what it means) but more importantly, you ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
Licensees that allow advisers to be active on social media could soon be more appealing to advisers according the Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking on a panel at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on the Gold Coast ...

Ditch retail prospectuses in some cases, say leading lawyers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... access to high quality information and advisers. Responding to this, Anatoly Kirievsky, head of compliance at Bank of America, said: "Do we need a 'safe harbour' provision where providers can offer basic product information at low compliance risk?" Above ...

Fund managers: Tide turning in emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... absorbed a significant amount of bad news. According to Semple, there are good opportunities in Taiwan, India and Latin America. AllianceBernstein emerging markets portfolio manager Morgan Harting echoed Semple's comments. "After several years of disappointing ...

More super changes inevitable: EY report

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Further changes to superannuation regulations are inevitable and more work is needed to improve confidence in the system, according to EY's Australia-based global pension leader Graeme McKenzie. Releasing EY's new report, 'Building a better retirement ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... suspense. It's the escalating tension between two former Soviet states - Armenia and Azerbaijan. According to Al Jazeera America's report (2 August), it's "The deadliest fighting in the region in 20 years..." The Armenians and the Azeris are fighting ...