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Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... region, especially with signs of structural change in the domestic economy. "From where I'm sitting, Australia's strong home-country bias is not a sustainable thing. The natural point of call for capital is Australia's trading partners," he said. Already ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Better Life Index, we are already the happiest industrial country in the world...for the third year running at that! The OECD seems to have handed the Gillard-Swan tandem bragging rights ...

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... managers. According to the UK broadsheet, some councils are paying three times as much as funds the same size elsewhere in the country and overall the most expensive funds are paying four times as much as the cheapest ones. Last week David Cameron's ...

Empty orchestra

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... the three arrows were hitting their marks - until Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda opened his mouth. In the country that invented the karaoke, I'm pretty sure Kuroda san has done it with Ronan Keating at one point or another. I'm also sure ...

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Profits for Japanese companies are set to get higher despite the country already being in a bull market said Kerr Neilson, chief executive and founder of Platinum Asset Management. In an interview with Financial Standard, Neilson said the fund manager ...

Pressure on benchmark affects managers performance: Cuffe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... investors to allocate their shares in Australian equities. "When I meet a global equities manager, I ask him about the country allocation and what is the sector allocation relative to the index; in 90% of cases both are very close to it," Cuffe said. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... the Bank of Japan (BoJ) wrapped up a two-day meeting with a unanimous vote to keep its monetary policy unchanged, as the country attempts to tackle years of deflation. Seoul climbed 0.64 per cent, or 12.74 points, to finish at 1,993.83, while Shanghai ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... micro-caps," he said. Another aim of the fund is to avoid large drawdowns. The team aims to keep up with the MSCI All Country Total Return index in rising markets but dramatically outperform it when the market is selling off. "We always look for evidence ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... only two months ago and waaaay down from the all-time high of 48.60% two months and a year before. Not only that, the country that started it all has just recently earned an upgrade on its credit rating - to B- from CCC -- from Fitch because of the "clear ...

SPAA, Deloitte join calls for SG deferral rethink

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... Abbot's budget reply speech in which he said the Coalition would delay raising the SG from 9% to 12%, in a bid to save the country $1.1 billion. SPAA head of technical and professional standards Graeme Colley said the delay would reduce the adequacy ...