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Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... pay rational prices, you're not going to see a NetFlix in our portfolio," said McVey. McVey acknowledged that this seems an odd thing for an investment manager to say but this approach has enabled them to add 70% to cumulative returns in the US since ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Asia Funds Passport will never get off the ground because the majority of fund managers in the region are already aligning their products with European UCITS standards, according to EY Asia-Pacific and EMEIA asset management leader Roy Stockell. ...

Advice industry under-prepared for younger client base

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The professional advice industry is facing a seismic demographic shift that it is ill-prepared for, according to the chief executive of Pershing Advisor Solutions, Mark Tibergien. "The industry is fundamentally built on baby boomers but there is a demographic ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... despite the sector being a major driver of US markets overnight. "The industrials in our market are a little lighter, which is odd." She said the major banks and resources stocks were the key drivers of the market on Friday morning. National Australia ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street after a strong jobs report fuelled expectations that the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its huge stimulus soon. At 0809 AEDT on Monday, the December share price ...

Ripoll rips into Abbott government's 'amateurism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... the Honourable Arthur Sinodinos AO would have gone, 'No, we can't put this out, because it's just not true.' It's more than odd. It's either incompetence, or just amateur hour." He said he was happy for the government to "give it a gong," but said they ...

ISA and FSC at odds over super tax changes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has criticised the Government's intention to scrap Labor's plan to cap tax-exempt investment earnings through super, saying it will "sit uncomfortably" with low income earners. The previous administration had planned to ...

RBA and Melbourne Cup two-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Punters could enjoy a two-fecta today - the day when the Melbourne Cup meets with the RBA interest rate announcement - should the odds in their favour go. Odds-on are for the RBA to stay (on monetary policy) and Fioreno to win (the Cup). On the surface ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
They did it again! Yes Virginia, Washington did what most Tom, Dick and Harriet expected it would do. It reached a compromise deal at the 11th hour. Wall Street's happy, especially those who stayed the course and saw through the political shenanigans ...

Bowen and Cormann at odds over adviser enshrinement

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
The debate around the enshrinement of the term 'financial planner' has revealed division between Treasurer Chris Bowen and shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann. "An important priority for a re-elected Rudd Labor ...