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China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... there's lots of things to worry about in every country," Halmarick said. "I think the Chinese authorities have shown a pretty good handle on running that economy. The opening up of capital markets saw a gigantic rise in the equity market and now it's ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... manager Sean Fenton says that there are real risks that "the slowdown in [Chinese] growth becomes a hard landing. That has pretty serious consequences for Australia." But over the past few months an increasing number of fund managers have struck deals ...

Advisers should beware industry "frenemies"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... associations may be able to play a more active role in this space as well, and suggested ASIC could also participate. "We're pretty early in adapting to this, too," he noted. "It's going to keep evolving and we'll be learning from that experience and ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... headline CPI eased back to zero in June from 0.1% in May; the core rate dipped to 0.8% from 0.9% -- the UK economy is lookin' pretty good and is more likely to turn even prettier. This is because the same slow growth in prices -- along with an improving ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... never going to be the planner whose client says, 'Hey, where did my planner go?'" He added that his fee-disclosures are "pretty much monthly, and start at around $550 a month. I tell my clients my real value is as a coach, helping them to realise their ...

PROFILE: EISS chief executive Alex Hutchison

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... investigative expertise following a number of corporate collapses, especially in the property trust arena. "That was a pretty good experience, working on a number of major cases. One at the time was the Rural Property Trust collapse where we got a $68 ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... herself said the economy and specifically the jobs market still has some weak points to surmount. "The market views it as pretty dovish," Brent Schutte, market strategist at BMO Global Asset Management, said of Yellen's comments. "She emphasised more ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... points above its session lows. "The stocks were very weak the first hours and then they were able in the midday to stage a pretty good comeback," said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. He said that surging US Treasury yields ...

Van Eck goes local on EM fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... we change? Last year EM growth was disappointing. Now it's beginning not to disappoint. "Commodity prices have declined pretty dramatically and appear to be stabilising, and a lot of the asset prices that we're particularly attracted to have overreacted ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Kelaher started practicing law shortly after graduating with a bachelor of law and economics at Monash University. "I decided pretty early on that it wasn't to my liking," he explains. Instead, he decided to explore the other side of his degree. Through ...