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Adapt or die, asset managers warned

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
Asset managers all over the world are recognising they need to adapt their business models if they are to remain relevant to ever-more powerful asset owners. State Street surveyed 400 senior executives from investment management firms from Europe, the ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street following a mixed batch of earnings reports and another big decline by technology giant Apple. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down 16 ...

Super decades away from maturity

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... focusing on the needs of a privileged few and start talking about how relatively small balances of super can still make a big difference to the quality of life in retirement," Garcia said. Cooper said in the current "maturing" system 0.5% of Australians ...

Super and pension work together

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... focusing on the needs of a privileged few and start talking about how relatively small balances of super can still make a big difference to the quality of life in retirement." AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk added, "The key point for people ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... do, with agile development we can reduce the time by an eighth or a tenth and bring it to market much earlier. That's had a big impact on the way in which we do product development. "Everybody thinks it's about the technology. It's really the technology's ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... after liftoff. That compares with 48 per cent Thursday." (AFR) This because of fresh US data releases that disappointed - big time. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index dropped to 90.9 in July vis-A -vis June's 99.8 reading and expectations ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
The biggest industry moves this week are AMP Capital appointing a new managing director and former Challenger chief executive Chris Cuffe becoming chair of Atrium Investment Management. AMP Capital appoints new MD - Adam Tindall, currently director ...

AustralianSuper builds in-house global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... active and focus on stock picking rather than sector or geographic selection. It will be benchmarked, bottom up and picking big companies to invest in." McKeand explained that the team will initially manage "a small proportion [of AustralianSuper's global ...

Financial advice is a boring game

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Approached as a game, financial advice is boring and unappealing for prospective clients, argued PortfolioConstruction Forum chief finology officer Dr. David Lazenby. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... cent, to 5,571. US stocks have snapped a five-day losing streak, posting strong gains after positive earnings from UPS and a big rally in petroleum-linked stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 189.68 points (1.09 per cent) to 17,630.27. The broad-based ...