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Murdoch matriarch remembered for charity work

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the mother of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, died overnight at her home in Victoria at the age of 103. She will be remembered as one of Australia's leading philanthropists, dedicating her life to worthy causes. She was known to ...

Ex-Ascalon boss starts at BlackRock

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
Westpac-owned boutique Ascalon Capital's former chief executive officer has this week started his new job as of head of alternatives for BlackRock in Australia. After announcing in June this year that he was leaving Ascalon, a subsidiary of Westpac's ...

Nothing new in objectives-based investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Objectives-based investing is nothing new and fund fiduciaries being pushed to adopt it should instead see it as recognition that traditional investment approaches has many inbuilt limitations. Tony MacKenzie, chief strategist at QIC, told the ASFA ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
Another day, another flip-flop on the cliff on Wall Street - and so it shall be until we actually witness the shaking of the hands between the Dems and the Reps closer to the end of this year or... (hopefully not) through to early 2013. I'm about as ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services appoints IRP Asia/Pac head

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Madhu Gayer has been appointed head of Investment Reporting and Performance (IRP) in Asia Pacific, a newly created position based in Singapore. Reporting to Mostapha Tahiri, head of asset and fund services in Asia and Nicolas Le Clech, global head of ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
They can put any spin on it they want but you know, and I know, and even your uncle's dog knows that 'twas just another ordinary day on equity markets overnight. Wall Street and Europe closed higher 'supposedly' because the Israelis and the Palestinians ...

Beware defensive funds: Towers Watson

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
The explosion in demand for low volatility and defensive equity funds is making these assets too expensive, says Towers Watson's Stephen Miles. The group's global head of equities says the substantial increase in the number of defensive equity products ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
In the new edition of Financial Standard we review Australia's banking sector, and feature on the impacts of MySuper on the financial advice community, as well as latest news, views and regular features. Financial Standard's latest edition of the iPadA(C) ...

AIST CEO resigns for UN post

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
Fiona Reynolds has resigned as chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Reynolds is leaving to become managing director of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). PRI is a global investor initiative in ...

Bubble forming in dividend stocks: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
Falling cash rates are pushing investors up the risk scale and artificially inflating the prices of yield-generating equities, according to Schroders. The result of this flow of hot money, according to David Wanis, senior portfolio manager for Australian ...