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Financial advice key for world in reverse: Geldof

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... you create endless opportunity for growth," he continued. As an exemplar, Geldof highlighted China's ability in the first decade of this century to pull 400 million of its people out of extreme poverty via strong shifts in economic policy. "And what ...

Technology will shape financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... significant potential offered by deploying blockchain, will be the biggest influencers on financial services over the next decade and those that don't adopt will be left behind, Riddell said. While Riddell doesn't think crypto-currencies will have any ...

SMSFs narrow performance gap: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... respectively (see Graph 1). Over a 10-year period, both indices returned 4.6% per annum. An SMSF member who invested $100,000 a decade ago would now have earned $156,870 - this is $849 more than a workplace superannuation default investment option.

Family-owned companies beating equity markets across all regions

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... Suisse research reveals that cumulatively, family-owned companies have beaten the MSCI AC World Index by 55% over the past decade. Credit Suisse defines family-owned businesses as those where founders or descendants of founders have at least a 20% direct ...

QIC boosts US presence with acquisition

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... reached this milestone," QIC managing director of global real estate Steve Leigh said. "We are building off more than a decade of amassing market intelligence and understanding in the US retail sector. We view the US real estate market and the retail ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... a Washington-based policy group, estimated on Wednesday the plan contained about $5.8 trillion of total tax cuts over a decade and would have a net cost of $2.2 trillion through 2027." That's enough to buy the whole of Italy with Denmark to spare! But ...

SPIVA again scores active versus passive debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... scorecard indicates the majority of funds were outperformed by these indices across all included asset classes. Over the past decade, the index beat 75.32% of Australian large-cap funds, 90% of international equity funds, 86.44% of Australian bond funds ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
Shareholders attempting to take the Commonwealth Bank to the Federal Court for historically failing to disclose climate change risks in its annual reports have withdrawn the claim. Legal correspondence between social justice group Environmental Justice ...

Global $11bn manager acquires US firm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... itself will be renamed Impax Investment Management (US). Impax chief executive Ian Simm said: "I am delighted that, after a decade of working with Joe and his team to design, launch and manage the Pax Global Environmental Markets Fund, the Impax and ...

Investec to take on Aussie ABL sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... installation and the appointment of Furqan Badri," Beissel said. The Investec Group has been involved in the ABL market for over a decade in the UK and South Africa.