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Centric Wealth recalibrates advice through newly-formed board

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Centric Wealth gives its clients a chance to voice their concerns and priorities in a more structured manner through a newly-formed client advisory board. And despite ongoing industry discussion about fees, the first meeting of the Centric Wealth client ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher after investors regained some of their appetite to buy. The big miners and the major banks made early gains. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said investors were using recent dividend payments to ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... benchmark bond yields in the PIS - Portugal, Ireland, Spain - actually dropped over Q1. Despite the contagion scare, the problem had been localised in Italy and Greece (because Cyprus is Greece many claim) with their bond yields rising by 26 bips and ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... underlying mortgages rose to $8.2 trillion last year, a gain of 25 percent, according to Federal Reserve data." I have a problem with the durable goods orders though. It's good and yet it's bad. The financial press latched onto the better than expected ...

Instreet happy with growth at 5-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
Instreet has grown to a point where protecting market share, rather than winning it, is the strategic priority, according to managing director George Lucas. The asset manager, which has more than $500 million in assets under management, is celebrating ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders." Investors and rich depositors in the rest of the problem members of the Eurozone beware! Mynheer Dijsselbloem is "pushing back". He may have spoken too soon. Once he saw the financial ...

Reignited euro crisis prompts gold rush

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... month was 7.7%. Meanwhile, news outlets are reporting that a draft deal has been reached on how to manage Cyprus' debt problem. Initial reports suggest that a significant levy on deposits over a,-100,000 in Cypriot banks are part of the plan. Cyprus ...

Time to rebalance as cash returns fall: Bridgewater

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... same, the total return of a portfolio will be lower if cash returns continue to deteriorate. Investors can tackle the problem by investing more efficiently and diversifying their portfolio through raising their allocations once more to bonds and equities. ...

Super funds eye World Bank Green Bonds: Nikko AM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Nikko AM says it has received a very positive response to its green bond strategy from the Australian superannuation funds it has met with this week. While the fund manager would not be drawn on which institutions had expressed interest, Nikko AM chief ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... and China by 7.9% over the same period - far below the double-digit growth rates these economies produced in 2007. The problem is that the BRICs respective central banks are straitjacketed by rising inflation. Annual consumer price inflation in Brazil ...