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ASIC starts shadow shopping

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... current super pool is in retirement products, such as de-accumulation products, and this is likely to double over the next decade. It's critical people make good decisions about their retirement and get quality retirement advice to make the most of their ...

A decade on, Frontier turns new leaf

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
From an $18 billion asset consultancy in 2000 to the $100 billion behemoth today, Frontier Investment Consulting is all grown up - and it is finding new ways to deliver more value to its clients. This week Frontier's managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

Climate change choice - market or regulation?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
The climate change arguments currently before the parliament present Australia with the stark choice between market based solutions or a quagmire of regulation, said Dr Ross Garnaut yesterday when speaking at the National Press Club. This is the inevitable ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... and Greece are all looking to privatise airports. CFS GAM believes that a 10 per cent pa compound return over the next decade is a reasonable expectation for an actively managed global listed infrastructure portfolio. Peter Meany, head of global listed ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... the second biggest economy in the world. This tragedy might as well be the turning point that rouses Japan from its two decade long stupor. From the Financial Times, "A few years ago, a senior official at Japan's finance ministry shocked a foreign guest ...

ASIC clampdown on poor business models in advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... strong focus on transparency and quality advice and we have had systems and processes in place to support this for almost a decade now," said Miller. "Whilst we are still digesting the content of ASIC's announcement, anything that increases transparency ...

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... October 2010 to US$1.160 trillion in December. The industry was already believed to be preparing for an end to the three-decade Treasury rally with the world's biggest mutual fund Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO) recently dumping all Treasuries ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... Index. According to the report, "While emerging-market equities beat developed countries every year except 2008 in the past decade, they're falling now as Brazil, Russia, India and China battle inflation." To rein in inflation, the BRICs and other emerging ...

Spot the bubble before they burst

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... began to look pricey in 2004 but didn't peak until 2007, sucking many investors in. Forecasting for US equities in the last decade was also far too optimistic. "It's tempting to get involved for short term gains but you'll lose in the end. You know that ...