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Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Treysta moves $200 million funds under advice into managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
The next generation of financial advisers are in an enviable position to offer investment solutions that have long eluded their predecessors. Mark Nagle, executive director at Treysta Financial Life Management, explains how managed accounts have transformed ...

ASX to set up shop in Hong Kong

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
ASX will open a local office in Hong Kong's financial district to better service its customer base in the Asian region. The office will open on 1 October and will be headed by Asian business development manager James Keeley. The move coincides with ...

AMP China Fund changes "too weak": unit holders

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
The largest independent unit holder of the China Growth Fund (AGF) has labeled AMP Capital's effort to reduce the discount "extremely disappointing and too weak." LIM Advisors is directly contacting other unit holders of the fund as it considers that ...

Many APLs still block managed account usage

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Despite the rise and rise of managed accounts, financial advisers still report that APL and AFSL restrictions are the main blockage on more of them getting on board with this new way of administering investments. Financial Standard has just completed ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
"I got chills, they're multiplying." Risks are again off the table as the bad news flow keeps on flowing. Most of them we already know and some are just coming to the fore. The uncertainty over the "when" of the Fed's first step towards policy normalisation. ...

Japanese life giant to acquire rival

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Nippon Life has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Mitsui Life. Following industry speculation in August that Nippon, Japan's second-biggest life insurer, was planning to acquire Mitsui in September, the two companies have jointly announced ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
"Suspense is worse than disappointment." -Robert Burns From today, we're getting more of it after Janet and her bunch of merry FOMC members decided to treat us - or prolong our agony, depending on which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. ...

Key executives depart ANZ ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
Two executives have stepped down from their roles as co-heads of ANZ ETFs, the joint venture between ANZ and ETF Securities. Only four months after announcing the partnership, ANZ ETFs co-head and head of distribution Danny Laidler and co-head and chief ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
We're now heading into the home stretch people - the weekend before the week the Fed meets and decides. The FOMC has a full week from today to make up its mind and us, lesser mortals, the same time to speculate and rumour-monger about what on Janet ...