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Equip-AustSuper partnership draws interest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... significant prospect," Equip's executive officer of corporate relations John Farrington told Financial Standard. "So we're pretty confident this is going to get significant traction." Farrington said Equip pitched the idea to AustralianSuper about a ...

FoFA opt-in to cause advisers biggest headache

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... for direction from ASIC and the FPA. It's a wait and see again." Pierre Ong of Victoria Teachers Mutual Fund said: "It's pretty frustrating. It only came out yesterday and we'll know more about it when the dust settles, but it's frustrating. It could ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... session, in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 finished virtually flat while the Nasdaq lost ground. "It's pretty much what we expected from overnight developments," he said. In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton gained 18 ...

IFM has 'concerns' over infra prices

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... the Canadians came in and paid far too much, as far as the local pension funds were concerned. "They thought they had a pretty good shot, they understood the asset, they thought the government would be supportive, but of course the government just wanted ...

Link Group plans to open Melbourne office

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... also hopes to offer jobs to those currently employed at Superpartners. "We will be planning a facility in Melbourne that pretty much duplicates our own facility in Sydney. "So we will be maintaining jobs in Melbourne. There's a lot of good expertise ...

SSgA warns of equity market complacency

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... likely to experience a re-rating. "If you look at our market, all the risk is dominated by the banks and the resources. Pretty much two thirds of the risk comes from those broad sectors. The drivers of return for the banks are housing performance and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... basically we are seeing ongoing support for the yield stocks. The big four banks are up," Spooner said. "The market seems to be pretty comfortable about NAB's result, which has supported the atmospherics." Spooner said the local market appeared to be ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... bright and beautiful with rosy earnings from construction equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar, turning Wall Street into a pretty butterfly. Not only that... here's what Bloomberg recommended I read next "based on my reading history", U.S. Stocks Rise ...

Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... being given away each year in costs. That's a gargantuan figure," he said. "Are we getting value from that? I think it's pretty obvious that we are not getting aggregate value from that amount." To combat this Ford called for the industry to focus less ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... them to make it a reality. This means building long-term, collaborative relationships with super funds. "I think it's a pretty powerful story. We've got a couple of clients like that locally and many globally. It's more of a consulting, bespoke solution ...