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Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... However, AllianceBernstein's Emerging Markets Multi-Asset team head Harting argued that investors fleeing to the perceived security of the developed markets are making a mistake. "We think that staying underweight emerging-market stocks poses substantial ...

Index portfolios mask geographical risks

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... helped by companies reporting where earnings are derived from in greater detail. "More than ever, active research and security selection is crucial to navigating the investment world. To help people reach their individual objectives, we need to align ...

I spy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... Neighbours theme song Not play 'I spy' with each other. Only last month, news broke that documents leaked by US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA spied on Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany and Spain (National ...

Funds explore hidden benefits of APRA reporting standards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... "Increasingly the funds we're talking to want to use it to make investment decisions - not necessarily at individual security holding - but at a fund manager level." The increased information and technological solutions (such as those offered by DST) ...

AMP seeks to raise $200 million with debt issue

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... expected to open on 14 November to eligible holders of the original 2009 notes via a reinvestment offer, and also to security holders, institutional investors, clients of syndicate brokers and members of the public that satisfy requirements set out in ...

Republicans vote that advisers have no best interest duty

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... stakeholders involved in pension funds and retirement products, groups it regulates under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). "The Department of Labor proposed a change to the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income ...

CBA could face legal action over Operation Lantern

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) may have broken the law when commissioning a security firm to conduct Operation Lantern, a surveillance operation on anti-banking lobbyist Michael Fraser. Fraser was followed and photographed by private investigators from ...

ACSA appoints new chair

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... custodians will be held to as we plan for the future." Braga thanked the incumbent chair and managing director of BNP Paribas Security Services Pierre Jond, who is returning to France. "Over the past two years, Pierre has broadened the role of ACSA as ...

Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... More than 740,000 Australian pensioners will have extra money in their pockets as a result of the lowering of the social security deeming rates from 4 November 2013, Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrew said. The deeming rate will decrease to 2% ...

McCredden joins Infradebt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013