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La Trobe reshuffles senior executive team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
La Trobe Financial recently announced a wealth of changes to its senior executive team. Senior vice president and former chief investment officer Randal Williams is now the chief lending officer and will be responsible for overseeing the real estate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after a rally in petroleum-linked equities helped lift US stocks following mixed earnings and economic data. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 38 points at 5,937. ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Hamish Douglass, Roger Montgomery, Kerr Neilson, David Paradice, Tim Samway, John Sevior, Anton Tagliaferro, Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success ...

AB managing director joins Dimensional

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
AB's managing director of institutional marketing and former country head Ross Kent has joined Dimensional Fund Advisors after more than a decade with the global asset manager. He joins the fund manager and research house as a regional director in Sydney ...

Advisers turning to annuities for longevity risk

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
An increasing number of financial advisers are recommending annuities to address growing concerns about longevity risk, according to Investment Trends' December 2014 Retirement Planner Report. The report, based on a survey of 617 financial advisers ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
The average active fund's performance versus index strategies has worsened compared to the previous six months, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard. The report, issued semi-annually, tracks the performance of ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Maybe June. Perhaps one of the 'ber' months of 2015. Could be early 2016 or later that year. Or... until the twelfth of never? This, as much, is what the much-awaited minutes of the 17-18 March FOMC meeting told us. That Yellen & Co, themselves, aren't ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
First quarter numbers on Wall Street are out, but they're not something to write home about. Eat our dust. The Dow ended 0.3% down and the S&P 500 index up by 0.4% in the first three months of 2015 - a significant underperformance compared with the ...

Super breaks $2trn on way to $9trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
Superannuation has now passed through $2 trillion and is well on its way to exceeding $9 trillion over the next 20 years, according to new research released by Rainmaker. While official figures are yet to confirm the $2 trillion marker has been crossed ...