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FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... was issued in December 2014, based on extensive consultation and submissions from interested parties. (As of the submissions cut-off date in February 2015, 137 were received.) Trowbridge's final report, released in March, contains 11 recommendations ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Low bond yields in Europe could be a buying opportunity even if the situation in Greece adds volatility to the market, PIMCO chief investment officer of asset allocation and real return Mihir Worah said. Worah presented PIMCO's long term outlook and ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... expecting deteriorating conditions over the next three months -- underscored in the same survey showing that firms expect to cut capital spending by 1.2% in the coming fiscal year. The BOJ also claimed that "...industrial production has been picking ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened higher as investors pile into resources stocks. Both the S&P/ASX200 and All Ordinaries are up around one per cent as optimism about a possible turnaround for commodities offsets a lacklustre lead from overseas. ...

ISA urges government to keep super safety net

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
Industry Super Australia has called for the super safety net to be retained, arguing that scrapping it would collectively cost employers $1.8 billion. Dropping the safety net would allow retail MySuper funds to compete in the default superannuation ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... bright ideas to get the show going." Miller predicts Australia's unemployment rate will reach 7% by December and the RBA will cut interest rates by 50 basis points. BlackRock says economic growth and monetary policy are diverging globally and the US ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... don't know Can you repeat the question?" - 'Boss of Me' The question - again - is will the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates on the first Tuesday of next month? With barely two weeks to go and armed with the latest inflation update that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... Club lunch. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower as investors reduce their expectations of a May interest rate cut. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 34.8 points, or 0.59 per cent, lower at 5,837.5. The broader All Ordinaries index was ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... is weaker as investors seem to interpret Australia's latest inflation data as reducing the chances of a May interest rate cut. Underlying inflation, which strips out the effects of volatile price movements, indicated an annual rate of 2.35% which is ...