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ASIC silent on IOOF investigation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Fairfax over the weekend, alleging that IOOF may have failed to inform the regulator about cases of misconduct by one of their top executives. The media investigation report concerned IOOF head of the advice research team Peter Hilton. Hilton was moved ...

New video series demystifies hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
London-based alternatives investment specialist Man Group has released a series of seven educational videos aimed at demystifying some of strategies and key concepts from the world of hedge funds. The short videos have been made for Man subsidiary AHL ...

Infrastructure allocations up 14% in two years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The top 100 infrastructure investors have increased their holdings in the asset class by 14% to $310 billion, according to Preqin research. This reflects the growing demand for infrastructure investment worldwide and supports the projection in PwC's ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Investors are wrongly convincing themselves there is still value in an overpriced equity market, a top performing fund manager says. Ben Leyland, senior fund manager at BT Investment Management-owned investment house J O Hambro and manager of the London-based ...

Social media, an investment tool in times of turmoil

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... doing in the stock market. A tool similar to Twitter's Trending Topic monitors unusual social volume on StockTwits and divides top 10 stocks and sectors in two categories: falling and rising. The large volume of users commenting on economic issues has ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... on the coat tails of a Wall Street energised by a fall in US jobless benefits claims. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies rose 0.41 per cent to end the Thursday at 6,707.88 points, while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.27 per cent to 4,803.48 ...

APAC fastest growing region for millionaire investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... the growth of GDP, the increase in real estate prices and changes in the stockmarket; Australia is still among the world's top 10 countries for the number of HNW in a list that also includes the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom, France ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Wednesday, with hopes of a deal with creditors over its bailout repayments fading fast. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies ended the day 0.44 per cent lower at 6,680.55 points compared with Tuesday's close. In Paris the CAC 40 closed ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... investment profile remain oriented toward traditional trading partners of the US, UK and New Zealand - even as four of Australia's top five trading partners now lie in the Asia-Pacific. Today Australia signed a free-trade agreement with China after more ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... 4,839.86 points, and Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose 0.54 per cent to close at 11,044.01 points. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies was essentially unchanged, down 0.01 per cent at 6,710.10 points. "The market has calmed down and halted the downward ...