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No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... 2.0% from a high of 2.1% this year (on the tenners) and to 1.9% from 2.0% on the five-year tenor. Still not a huge deal in big picture inflation expectations terms... but that's because the US dollar hasn't risen yet this year, instead the US dollar ...

Super deadline driving adviser self-education

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... content; we have had hundreds subscribe to our upcoming webinars, and many more who will attend in person," Miller said. "Big changes like this really demonstrate how much online resources support the industry to provide quality financial advice, as ...

Former ING DIRECT chief joins P2P lender

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... executive of ING Retail Banking Asia. He will help RateSetter in its mission to provide customers with an alternative to the big four bank model, and to accelerate the growth of its market share in both personal and business loans. RateSetter also will ...

Hunter Hall LIC board prepares for April fight

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
The future of Hunter Hall Global Value's current board is in doubt ahead of the April EGM where shareholders will vote on Wilson Asset Management's proposal to replace them. From HHV chair Paul Jensen's perspective, though, WAM's proposal is unlikely ...

Women key to finance sector culture issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... women should have received the opportunity to go for, but didn't because proper processes don't exist. Ridout said this is a "big problem." She urged women to take a risk and "demand you want a crack at that job...[Because] companies don't want you to ...

Emerging markets investment grows with new fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... placed in direct focus, and - perhaps most importantly - fundamentals need to be correct; don't overpay for assets, which is a big problem in emerging economies." Mercer believes that thinking about alignments of interest and sustainability factors results ...

Implemented Portfolios launches bespoke IMA offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... portfolio implementation than ever before," Elliot said. Elliot found the GFC demonstrated that charging high fees "at the big brand wire house wasn't sprinkling gold dust on their portfolios after all," with the IFA and ETF markets in the US surging ...

2017 to usher in stock-picker renaissance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... Financial Standard in Sydney, Wellso said that bottom-up active management had a rough year in 2016 because "there was such a big demand for yield. That's what people were after: bond proxies, essentially. And it was very hard to beat your benchmark." ...

Super to drive employment in 2017

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The superannuation and investment industry may prove to be Australia's biggest employment growth area in 2017. New insights from an industry survey conducted by SUPER Recruiters shows 50% of respondents anticipate the need to employ more staff this ...

Life insurance industry rebuts need for greater reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
Some of the financial services industry's biggest players fronted the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into life insurance on Friday. Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane faced the panel first, telling the Committee that any further ...