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Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... potential as well. "Due to regulatory and return-on-capital hurdles at the big institutions there're some segments of the market that are under-banked and under-served. If they can collaborate with an alternative provider in that space they can also ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
One of the best paths to investment success is to accommodate the market; buy when others are desperate to sell and sell when investors are buying irrationally. That's the investment mantra of Jonathan Bell Lovelace, the founder of Capital Group, one ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... now find itself under more pressure to manage the yuan as central banks in most developed economies do: by letting market forces determine their prices. What would happen if China really did give the market the last word on the yuan? For some time it ...

Oil price fall forces sovereign funds to switch gears

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Oil and gas export revenues are helping fund three quarters of sovereign wealth fund assets globally, but as oil prices remain lower, sovereign funds are expected to focus on other parts of the economy. Moody's Investors Survey research of global sovereign ...

Evolving super sparks C-suite shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... Wealth + Wellbeing doubling its investment team from five to 11. Cbus is also hiring an investment specialist in private market transactions; manager investment communications; and manager investment risk and performance.

Beware 'apples with apples' super comparisons

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... comparisons use commentary about risk-adjusted returns to explain post-hoc why they underperformed other default funds in the market rather than to explain why they have deliberately chosen very conservative strategies. For example, the top performing ...

SSFS rebrands, launches digital advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... business would require "major recasting." "Developing our future-proofing strategy to meet changing client needs and market forces called for focus on two equally important areas - people and technology," he said. The "people" aspect of StatePlus' new ...

More must be done to cut fees: FSC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... technology have already had an impact, lowering fees by 40% over the last five years. Rainmaker estimates that average market-wide super fees could fall below the 1% threshold within the next decade, even without further restructuring. "Fees have been ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... another sell, sell day. This time the media - social or otherwise - are calling the sharp drop in the Australian equities market yesterday a "Horror Monday". It wasn't as bloody as that "Bloody Monday", 24 August, when the benchmark index lost more than ...

Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... investment conference. "If we don't do something about fees I'm very scared that advertising, governments, and marketing forces us down a route of passive [investment] and that is not in my members' interests," Marshman said. Hostplus chief executive ...