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Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... economy" (you know who you are). While I can swallow the Ukraine rationale for Wall Street's sigh of relief, it looks like a stretch linking the US housing starts data (released overnight) to "improving outlook for the biggest economy" and therefore ...

Equity-like bonds most attractive

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... developed world will mean policy shifts depending on the underlying strength of economies. "We will not sacrifice quality to stretch for yield and see select opportunities in high-yield and US agency mortgages, the latter as a play on the recovering ...

Federation platform adds Pengana Aussie Equities Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Federation Managed Accounts Platform has added the Pengana Australian Equities Fund to its offering, available for advisers and their clients. The fund has a focus on capital preservation and downside protection and has generated a return of 13.2% per ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Magellan Financial Group insists its investment process remains scalable in spite of an $11 billion rise in assets under management and a three and half fold increase in underlying profit in the last 12 months. At the company's recent annual general ...

There is fear in the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013

ASFA calls for delay to MySuper reporting deadline

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013

NGS Super rethinks ESG as green option flops

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... understand the underlying risk, and therefore they vote against it, because they know their hard-earned dollars need to stretch a long way in retirement." The new option will be "significantly more diversified" than the green option, thus reducing that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... 1.23 (0.03 per cent) to 3,660.01. Markets opened higher on Friday but soon veered solidly into negative territory for a stretch before going positive again late morning and finally settling near flat. The Labor Department said the US added 169,000 jobs ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

Govt moves to enshrine 'financial adviser' label

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... approval. "We see the enshrinement of the term 'financial planner' or 'financial adviser as not a silver bullet by any stretch, but a critically important plank in terms of professionalism of financial planning," he said. "Now we would have liked to ...