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Advisers eye opportunity in identity theft protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... this information, and given the extent to which people tend to choose similar PINs and passwords across accounts, it's a pretty thin line," he added.

Banks will struggle to profit from super: Sunsuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... into them. "They invest in ETFs and bank deposits, and those bank deposits have 200 basis point margin on them, so they're pretty profitable for the bank. And the ETFs - the management fees are simply built into the share price." He says these practices ...

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... primary school peers on shares when he was just 10 years old. "Finance has always been a major interest to me and it's pretty funny looking back. That choice of topic for a presentation in primary school was pretty unusual," he says. "I remember doing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... analyst Ric Spooner expected the data to confirm positive sentiment in the market. "I think the market has however got a pretty good sense the domestic part of China's economy is responding to stimulus," he told AAP. "I would expect the figures to confirm ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... experts, analyst professionals. Still, it has her imprimatur - it's as good as she was the one who pulled the trigger. I'm pretty sure this was the least of Janet's concerns else she would have yakked about it during her testimony. But if it helps de-stretch ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... analyst Ric Spooner expected the data to confirm positive sentiment in the market. "I think the market has however got a pretty good sense the domestic part of China's economy is responding to stimulus," he told AAP. "I would expect the figures to confirm ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... disclose the value of that asset. "The minute you do that, good luck trying to sell it for more." He went on: "Now, I'm being pretty transparent about the fact that we own the building. I'm happy to also say we own all these properties in Sydney, and ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... have zero income? Another raison du' jour for today's down day on Wall Street is "stretched valuations". "Valuations are pretty stretched, and we don't see a lot of revenue growth, which might be negative for the market," Bruce Bittles, chief investment ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... about the pace of economic growth. That combination makes the stability of the infrastructure and utilities sector look pretty compelling." he said. "Add to that the fact that the distribution yield in the sector is pretty attractive, especially in this ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... digested that that's where we are." James knows. "The Fed is closer to its goal than many people appreciate... We're really pretty close to normal" - based on Jimmy's prediction that the US unemployment rate would fall below 6% and inflation would lift ...