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You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... and those that have already hit the pavement are digging some more with negative interest rates (Swiss National Bank) or QE-ing (BOJ and ECB). All designed to shoo investors away from their national legal tenders and towards the arms of the US dollar ...

Super funds blend ETFs into investment strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... AustralianSuper's scale allows the fund to negotiate with active managers to build bespoke strategies. Commenting on the issue, ING Direct head of third party distribution Mark Woolnough said that passive investment management is now used by close to ...

Super funds turning to passive to tackle high fees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Passive investment strategies are now being used by almost half of retail super funds, according to research by ING Direct which highlights that funds with high fees could end up costing investors more than $150,000 compared to cheaper funds. The research ...

Zurich chairman retires, replacement named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... position." Bedbrook's experience includes over 30 years in the financial services sector including senior leadership positions with ING. He is also chairman of Elanor Investors Group and Disability Sports Australia and is on the boards of Credit Union ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... reaction" (or expectations thereof) by our neighbours. A currency war by any other name is... While the BOJ and the ECB are QE-ing according to them, in the name of reviving their economies and fighting deflation, their 'non-conventional' policies are ...

PM Capital global fund boosts income growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... global equity manager PM Capital, and it has a 96% net equity exposure. The fund's top five holdings are Lloyds Bank (UK), ING Group (Netherlands), Pfizer (US), Barclays Plc (UK) and Google Inc (US). "The basic framework we employ at PM CAPITAL has not ...

Super only 35% of retirement nest egg

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... adequately for their retirement and expect that it will contribute a little more than one third of their retirement nest egg, ING Direct research revealed. Superannuation is expected to represent 35.8% of the retirement nest egg, while the government ...

AllianceBernstein rebrands

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
Global asset manager AllianceBernstein will now be known as AB following a rebrand. The legal name of the company, which has US$474 billion in assets under management, has not changed but it has introduced a new logo. "Our firm has evolved over the ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
You oughta be congratulated! Clap, clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% ...

Hub24 keeps growth pace in Q2

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... across managed portfolios, managed funds, exchanged traded funds (ETFs) and listed investment companies. New options include ING Direct 3 month, 6 month and 1 year platform term deposit products. Hub24 now has 45 active licensees using its platform ...