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A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Financial Planning was revoked earlier this week and managing director Mark Euvrard expressed surprise at the adviser's aggressive rant on Twitter. "How can you monitor it?", he asked, saying that the group does not have a specific social media policy ...

Cost cuts put research at risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... group Stanford Brown, which specialises in serving the medical sector and private wealth clients, said an excessively aggressive focus on cost reduction among wealth groups could undermine the very thing they are trying to deliver to their high value ...

KPMG hires heavy in financial services

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... went to financial services, infrastructure, government and healthcare - with 22 new partners. Supporting the company's aggressive growth plans for both the private enterprise and tax practices, these divisions each attracted 18% of new partners; audit ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... would justify the RBA further lowering interest rates to 1.25, but we don't think that will happen because it's too aggressive a move for the housing market," he added. This all means that Australia "is going to have to wear this slowdown in China and ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... further price appreciations. According to the 'Wall Street Journal' (WSJ) "China's central bank is readying its most aggressive easing tool since it launched a massive stimulus plan in 2008 to counter the global financial crisis, in a bid to help one ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... that the rise in US interest rates looks set to occur while the central banks of Japan and Europe are continuing an aggressive easing of monetary policy via balance sheet measures. The combined Japanese and European 'QE' will be very substantial. The ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... Japan, the UK and Switzerland." But for the last two months "we have seen a real switch in strategy to now get into more aggressive markets." The manager has moved out of Switzerland, the UK or Sweden and into Spain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Singapore. ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... inflated by central bank liquidity measures. In a letter to shareholders, BlackRock chief executive Laurence Fink said aggressive monetary policy was the biggest driver of asset-price bubbles forcing yield-starved investors to turn to lower-rated credits ...

Investors plan to up active allocation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... passive strategies had reached record highs. Two thirds of respondents also described their risk tolerance as 'moderately aggressive', indicating an increasing realisation from investors that an amount of risk in the portfolio is healthy and necessary ...

Super breaks $2trn on way to $9trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... Rainmaker's latest superannuation market projections. In its latest round of research reports, Rainmaker said that as aggressive as these projections may seem they could turn out to be conservative subject of course to assumptions and expectations regarding ...