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Fix philanthropy from ground up: FYA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) has launched a new placement program for the younger generations of family foundations and PAFs designed to ignite philanthropic interest. The Immerse program involves taking six to eight people between the ...

Investors warned on VIX futures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Investors should stay away from VIX futures as a passive standalone strategy, one manager has warned, saying that a flexible approach to buying volatility is necessary to avoid suffering high carry and rolling costs. When volatility hit the headlines ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
You just gotta love the financial markets -- they don't run out of things to speculate about. With QE speculation over, the guessing game has shifted to whether or not QEs will work to bring back animal spirits and lead to a longer lasting and durable ...

Five step process for QE3

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
A five step process can help investors ride the US Federal Reserve's latest round of open-ended quantitative easing, said a senior Fidelity Investment head. Even if you are skeptical about the long-term impact of QE3, "it would be a bold call in the ...

Vermilian joins forces with Data Action

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
Banking technology supplier Vermilian Pty Ltd has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a cooperative working arrangement with core banking platform provider Data Action Pty Ltd. The arrangement is expected to see the two companies bring more ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Fees paid by super fund members are falling but not because fund prices are falling, it's because of the dampening effect of self-managed super funds and higher balance members qualifying for discounts. The results are contained in the latest Rainmaker ...

Bendigo and Adelaide bank execs loose bonus

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
The senior executive team at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has taken a pay cut, with bonuses withheld in light of this year's profit drop. The bank's annual report released yesterday revealed that no short term incentives had been paid to its executives ...

Lest we forget Lehman: Omgeo

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
While this week's fourth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers only added to the GFC, history should see it as a net positive for the industry, according to Tony Freeman, executive director for industry relations at middle office player Omgeo. ...

Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Australian pension funds are ahead of the curve with their allocations to real assets, but could further exploit opportunities overseas. Australian super funds currently invest an average 17% of their total portfolio in real assets, although in reality ...

Australian foundations sample impact investing

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
Philanthropic foundations need to look to impact investments, including allocating from the corpus to market rate investments where they align with the foundation's mission and programmatic goals. Chief executive of the Global Impact Investing Network ...