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Liquidnet promotes Australian leader, names successor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... three years and for his dedication and commitment to growing our business." Liquidnet is where more than 850 of the world's top asset managers and other like-minded investors come to execute large block trades with maximum anonymity and minimum market ...

Executives must think beyond the technical

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... and FoFA - which are taking up an intensive amount of leaders' time and efforts - it has been quite a struggle to stay on top of technical skills. Lang advised leaders should be close enough to the technical, but not to get lost in the details - an important ...

Advice demand lags behind SMSF growth

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
... This is up from 212,000 in 2015, with taxation and superannuation, retirement strategies, and investment advice voted as the top areas in which trustees would like to be receiving advice. Additionally, a majority stated they would turn to a financial ...

Contribution caps cause SMSF cash surge

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... allocations to Australian equities declined as well, also partially due to market performance. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top 10 securities held in SMSFs are CBA, Westpac, ANZ, NAB, Telstra, BHP, CSL, Wesfarmers, Woolworths and Transurban. Minus Macquarie ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... it's the brand. Brand is key." As a result of this approach, he said, "you don't see the usual suspects. Why is Samsung the top holding in most EM funds? It's a big weight in the benchmark, for one, and so many funds have gotten so big that they have ...

AFA launches conference program

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers has released the final program for its 2017 National Adviser Conference. Carrying on the theme of 'taking advice beyond the horizon', highlights from the program include a panel session entitled 'Digital Solutions ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... retail spending (ex-autos) went up by an equally strong 0.5% over the month of July - more than the expected 0.3% increase - on top of a 0.1% gain in the previous month (revised from a 0.2% fall). Year-on-year, total retail sales growth accelerated to ...

Glass ceiling stops at C-Suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... remain silent on the issue. "That requires something more than pushing from below. It requires sideways intervention as well as top-down intervention," he said. "As fathers, sons and partners, men are already walking the walk at home in their private ...

Blue Sky profits underscore alternatives opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... and so on - and which, if you look at the data, have a track record of generating higher returns than public markets. "On top of that, if you look across the alternatives asset classes, there's quite a few investments we've made with a really solid cash ...

ASIC and CBA discussing potential advice problem

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... credit insurance to more than 65,000 customers, and chair Catherine Livingstone announced Ian Narev would retire from the top job by the end of June 2018, CBA released a list of several remediation programs affecting thousands of customers and employees. ...