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PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN | WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014

Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie joined Lonsec in early 2000, when it employed three analysts and provided research only to the Lonsec dealer group. For the last 14 years, Gillespie has seen Lonsec grow and become one of ...

PROFILE: Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of fixed income for Asia-Pacific Philip Moffitt

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014

... of the best known brands in the business, but despite his enduring success, he puts much of that rise down to simple pot luck. Mark Smith reports. Active asset management is an industry built on the central pillar that market-beating returns can be achieved ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014

...and a but, but here, and a but, but there, everywhere a but, but. Looks like I'm not the only one who likes my buts around here. There were 'buts' a-plenty after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released this "lucky country's' economic scorecard ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014

... placed to offer support in the short run. Yet the RBA's optimism may be misplaced as China slows and Australia's economic luck runs out." "The biggest risk to Australia - a weaker Chinese economy - may soon be the world's, too." Yes Virginia, Bill surely ...

Market wrap

AAP | THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014

The Australian stock market has opened higher following positive leads from Wall Street and a raft of encouraging local earnings results, including telecommunications giant Telstra. Despite lucklustre retail sales data all the major US markets gained ...

CBA whistleblower casts doubts over compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN | THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014

... victims" because they received advice years ago and "they've drummed into them that it was their fault or that there was bad luck because there was the GFC." Morris argued that "neither CBA nor [the Australian Securities and Investments Commission] ASIC ...

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE | MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014

Anthony Kirkham, the country head of fixedA income giant Western Asset Management, found his calling at a young age. Alice Uribe finds out how he steers a ship that quadrupled its funds under management to $20 billion despite challenging times. Anthony ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014

... However, he said he was not happy with rules demanding funds to disclose the value of that asset. "The minute you do that, good luck trying to sell it for more." He went on: "Now, I'm being pretty transparent about the fact that we own the building. ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014

... Music" to himself (perhaps at the same time that his predecessor, Sir Mervyn King, is singing the blues). Whether it was sheer luck or deft handling of policies implemented by Sir King before him, the UK economy had been steadily building momentum without ...

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Invesco launches new equity fund

ELIZA BAVIN

Invesco said the new fund will give Australian investors access to a systematic global equity strategy with a 20-year track record.

FCA pursues Neil Woodford again

KARREN VERGARA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is going after failed fund manager Neil Woodford again, this time for allegedly providing unauthorised investment advice via W4.0, his Dubai-based investment platform.

Former APRA deputy chair launches retirement solutions startup

KARREN VERGARA

A former APRA deputy chair has launched CipherIQ, a new venture that provides retirement solutions via account-based pensions in partnership with superannuation funds, financial advisers and retirees.

Global X launches space tech ETF

MATTHEW WAI

Global X has now launched the space tech ETF (ASX: MOON).

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