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Super funds need modern platforms to disclose holdings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... platform provider SimCorp, which services up to 70% of the European institutional market including Alliance and ING, said the problem for super funds was old platforms that can't cope with the regulatory change cheaply and easily. Peter Hill, managing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
The Australian share market was lower at noon on the back of weak energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 25.9 points lower at 4,278, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 24.7 points at 4,347.1. On the ASX 24, the ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... normally distributed." This fat tail risk represents a limitation for modern portfolio theory and Robinson said it was a problem for model assumptions. Another problem for asset allocations is that correlations between indexes or asset classes are not ...

Advisers prep for 'back-to-basics' investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... rollercoaster of investor sentiment is also crucial to assisting clients as it is more often our clients' perspective of the problem rather than the problem itself," said Salvia. Simon Dowd, financial planner, Noall & Co, said that while it is a complex ...

In defence of superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... property this increases to 66%, explaining why retail funds are much more vulnerable to equity market falls. The bigger problem is longevity as Commonwealth government figures show that over the past century average male life expectancy jumped from 57 ...

ASIC warns CFD providers on margin calls, disclosure

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... press conference, Medcraft flagged margin calls in a volatile market as an issue for CFD providers. "Clearly there's a problem when they do margin calls," he said. "Often you have gapping risks in terms of the speed at which margin calls can occur." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
The Australian stock market looks set for another day of declines, after European and US stocks dropped sharply again overnight. At 0725 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was 99 points lower at 3,995. In economics ...

Future Fund posts higher returns, chairman warns of volatility

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... crisis had been caused by excessive government and private sector debt in developed countries. "The sorting out of that problem is something that could take up to 20 years. As that post crisis environment unfolds we will see continuing events such as ...

PC disability insurance final report released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... expenditure, fiscal drag, and if necessary, tax increases," they noted. The PC said the scale of Australia's disability problem is so large that it has continued to reject private sector and user-pays models as too small to tackle the problem. Illustrating ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... tools as appropriate" but there was no mention of QE3. Although I wouldn't put it pass the Fed to throw more money at the problem when the problem gets severely severe, what it did last night was a pure stroke of genius. By putting a timeframe on when ...