Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 231 - 240 of 439 results for market+forces

Ageing population presents investment potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... sector should be considering the power that demographics have in shaping society's infrastructure demands. "Japan's REIT market is well established, aided by a long history of zero interest rates and the resulting appetite for yield. The emerging senior ...

Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... many weeks. This time the focus is centred on super funds' investment portfolios with a survey from activist group Market Forces showing 86% of Australians want to know where their superannuation is fully invested. From more than 1000 respondents the ...

Future Fund ahead of target on tenth birthday

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... innovation and disruption stories across many industrial sectors. It has also derived profits from plugging the private market lending gap left by banks as they face increased regulation and higher capital requirements. "I think it's reasonable for a ...

Managed accounts to disrupt fund businesses to the tune of $60bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... reading for both fund managers and financial advisers with or without a managed accounts offering. "We identify six market forces now driving the adoption of managed accounts and they could deliver around 75% of industry net flows," noted the report. ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... equity post trade services, Cliff Richards, said if you currently used blockchain to try and solve the Australian equities market, it would fail. He said the ASX's investigative work with Digital Asset over the last six months has been focused around ...

Shaw and Partners joins forces with Praemium

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
Shaw and Partners and Praemium have partnered to deliver a managed account solution for clients. The solution consists of two investment model portfolios under a separately managed account (SMA) structure. One allocates exclusively to Australian equities ...

SuperGuard360 gives SMSF trustees greater protection

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... said. Rainmaker marked the launch of SuperGuard360 with a whitepaper that explores the forces driving the burgeoning SMSF market and the risks to which SMSFs and their trustees may be exposed. The paper - The risks of investing outside the flags: Protecting ...

Group insurance gets a makeover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... superannuation funds and group insurers to take unprecedented action. QSuper, for example, recently approached the insurance market before working with APRA to make an extraordinary move and establish its own life company. Sunsuper, which pays out more ...

Focus Financial looking for more local partners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... what's worked in the US, it's not the same but it has some similarities, has a lot of applications in the international market, Australia being one of them, so we're very much interested in setting up a base here." Speaking to the future of wealth management ...

AFA heralds adaptability

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... strategy, culture and architecture of their advice practices," he said. "Delegates considered the key trends and market forces through the lenses of political, market, economic, digital and consumer shifts in the advice landscape. These are important ...