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Australia's coming $32bn SIB sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... Australia's lack of an established corporate bond market could make SIBs an investment class worth considering. McClure said on SKY News when he released his report that SIBs are well suited to institutional, high net worth and corporate investors. The ...

Blue Sky reports $2.6 million profit

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported an underlying net profit after tax of $2.6 million for the half year ending 31 December 2014. Underlying revenue stood at $16.5 million, up from $7.2 million in the prior corresponding period. The directors ...

Brady Bunch as useful as market commentary: Shane Oliver

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... economist, Oliver is skeptical that the insights he gives are helping investors achieve better results. "I tweet and appear on Sky and Bloomberg but is it helping investors? I suspect not. How can you make any sense of all the conflicting messages out ...

OPINION: The Achilles heel of unbundled services

DARREN SPEIRS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... interfaces that support integration, flexibility and complete freedom of movement across each space. Sound like pie in the sky? I don't believe so. For unless the question of integration is comprehensively addressed by the SMSF market - and choice, control ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
We're back to crude oil spotting again folks. Prices dropped big time again last night - WTI oil down 4.0% to US$44.36 a barrel and Brent's down 2.4% to US$48.43 per barrel. Not surprisingly, Wall Street, which had been trading flat for most of the ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
I thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... before closing minus 0.1% down. Must be vertigo Virginia. You'll feel the same way too if you're way high enough to touch the sky. Economic growth of 3.9% would be a considered a crash for China and a disappointment for many emerging economies, but for ...

Libertas FP to offer SMA portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... Portfolio uses the Bellmont Core Equity Portfolio as a base and adds a buy-write overlay that swaps the possibility of 'blue sky' returns in any period, for the certainty of regular premium income. "We are seeing many of the leading independent financial ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Asset consultants are jostling for position in a bid to combat the in-housing of super fund investment teams, with a variety of strategies emerging. At its recent annual Ideas Exchange in Melbourne, Towers Watson addressed superannuation fund CIOs some ...