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J.P. Morgan bullish on several asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... this year but we feel like there are significant structural headwinds, which mean the chances of breaking above that are pretty limited," Auld said. "What would make it a whole lot better is a meaningful lift in productivity growth across the world. ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... headlines as they used to be before Trump? Trump has trumped the central bankers. Asked for news recall over the past week, I'm pretty sure that most would mainly remember Trump's tweets and deeds. Everybody and their dogs would recall Trump's executive ...

HLB appoints director, outlines plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... when people come knocking asking for money when they're at their most vulnerable, and we worry that there will be some pretty sad stories emerging," Hutton explained.

Former ClearView chair joins CountPlus

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... people signed up, because they figured that if Barry Lambert was involved it must be good. Fortunately, it was! And they pretty much haven't looked back since then." Read the rest of the FS Private Wealth Barry Lambert profile here.

FPA educating future planning generation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... approved code going forward, so I think this puts the FPA in the box seat," he said. "It's a long-term goal, but our code is a pretty big sign of professionalism and there's a lot of accountability and responsibility that comes with being bound by that." ...

Defining DB for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
... with the $1.6 million cap," Howard said. "The good news is that there is a simple way to determine this and it's actually pretty straight forward. You calculate the total balance of a defined benefit pension for the purpose of the $1.6 million transfer ...

Guest of honour

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... Yellow Pages ad, and the accountants would pay him a fee, which he says was "roughly half the cost of running the ad." "Pretty soon," he says, "I had a bunch of accountants, they'd each pay me half the cost of the ad, and I was making ten times the value ...

Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... investment gives you a 200 basis points head start? I'm allowed to be wrong on Japan because I have a 2% cushion, that's pretty cool." Managing director of BetaShares Alex Vynokur said following the launch there has been a lot of enthusiasm for the fund ...

Instos should reconsider hedging strategies: PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... mitigating downside risks is vital," Ryan said. "In terms of performance improvement by reducing risk, those numbers are pretty big. You don't want to say that it's flawed but if you've got an efficiency gain there of 150 bps that's a big number." The ...

Super and innovation: a glass half full

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... whole innovation story for super because of cheque size and lack of funds management skills," Ferris said. "That's changing pretty fast and that's a good sign. At the larger end of funding for innovative middle-sized larger corporations the situation ...