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EQT Global Equity Fund on BT Wrap and Asgard

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... fund in December 2013, taking total funds under management to over $500 million. The fund aims to exceed the MSCI All Country World Index (excluding Australia) by 2.5% p.a. over rolling five year periods after fees.

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... secede? Certainly, they can no longer blame it on the Putin... and they'll even be accused of interfering with a sovereign country's democratic process. The very one the West wants to protect. No one raised an eyebrow when Quebec held referendums on ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Yeah, it's good but... This is the overriding verdict of the country's oft-quoted economists to the latest Australian national accounts report that showed our economy grew by a larger-than-expected 0.8% (expectations 0.7%) in the December quarter and ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
China's short-to-medium-term economic challenges should not distract investors from the long-term rise of the country as a global financial power and the investment opportunities that its emergence will create, according to AllianceBernstein director ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... also Gwen who took the first step towards globalisation of the profession and thanks to her, Australia became the first country in the world to adopt America's Certified Financial Plannera,c designation. Gwen's services to the Australian financial planning ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Arseniy Yatsenyuk declared that, "This is the red alert, this is not a threat, this is actually a declaration of war to my country". And so there we have folks a new geopolitical risk for the financial markets. Not because the Ukraine and Russia may ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... people call Saving, is in private families the most certain method to increase an estate, so some imagine that, whether a country be barren or fruitful, the same method if generally pursued (which they think practicable) will have the same effect upon ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... that - shorting the Chinese yuan versus the greenback - from here on after the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) allowed the country's legal tender to fall by nearly 0.5% in a single day - seems small but it was the biggest fall since November 2010 and followed ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... declines in its North American business. Shares in Ramsay Health Care gained $2.85, or 6.4 per cent, to $47.41, after the country's largest private hospital operator reported a 14 per cent rise in net profit. However, the market's heavyweight mining ...

Ageing population threatens welfare system: Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey questioned whether the health and welfare systems could cope with the country's ageing population and asked for a debate about the cost of the age pension. Hockey spoke during the G-20 Finance ministers meeting that took place in ...