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Annuities lead US advice requests

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... unsolicited products requested by clients," they noted. "We've seen a tremendous year-over-year increase in the number of times financial advisors receive requests from their clients for annuities, an increase of more than 15%. The product ranked sixth ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... with Wall Street company earnings expectations so low and company CEO's providing poor earnings guidance. The Financial Times reports that the S&P 500 companies' earnings are expected to decline by 2.7% in the third quarter. Bloomberg says they'll be ...

Hybrid securities back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... investors to not consider hybrids as fixed income securities. "Hybrid securities display equity risk characteristics, often at times when you don't want them to. While there potentially is a place for hybrids in a portfolio, we would question whether ...

Fidelity's Taylor kicks-off scholarship

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Finance. The Masters in Finance at the London Business School was recently rated the top course of its kind by the Financial Times newspaper for the second year in a row. Taylor will be participating in Fidelity's financial adviser road show next wee ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... against the company's executive compensation report. "We don't believe that any senior executive is worth four or five hundred times the wages paid to the employees who do the work, produce the product and generate the revenue and profits", said Russell. ...

Volatility breeds opportunism: Report

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... diversification across style boxes or indices, and that opportunism trumps diversification. "These are exciting-but challenging-times for asset managers as the landscape continues to change rapidly. As markets remain volatile, investors no longer care ...

Fix philanthropy from ground up: FYA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... into their family foundation with a lot more knowledge and awareness and understanding of how the sector works - in other times it might spin them off in a completely different direction," Pharaoh said. "Ultimately whatever direction they choose is better ...

Invesco acquires 49% stake in Religare

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... growth potential of the Indian financial services industry." Religare's asset management business's main focus in recent times has been on developing its investment capabilities through a well-defined, proprietary investment process both in equity and ...

ANZ fined over futures contracts

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... that exceeded the speculative position limit of 6,500 contracts for wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade several times in August 2010. The bank also held a net short position in excess of the 5,000 contracts in relation to cotton futures on the ...

China slowdown hits rich list

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... significant wealth bloodletting, it is worth remembering that these entrepreneurs are still up 40% on two years ago and almost ten times ten years ago." Seven individuals on the Rich List are delegates to the 18 th Party Congress, including Sany's Liang ...