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Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... decade and solid investment returns, "it should not be too long before the large superannuation funds reach the size of the big North American funds, potentially beyond. "At that stage, the giants of funds management in Australia should have the capacity ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
It's bad, it's bad, it's bad you know it. They say bad news come in threes - we've got all three at the end of last week. Greece running out of money and reform deal still looks unlikely heading into its meeting with 'the institutions' four days and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
The big miners and banks are dragging the share market lower as investors take profits from recent gains and exercise caution due to concerns about Greece's debts. A fall in BHP Billiton's share price, despite an overnight rise in base metal prices ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Head of the world's largest fund manager has warned shareholders about an ever-expanding bubble in yield-paying assets, inflated by central bank liquidity measures. In a letter to shareholders, BlackRock chief executive Laurence Fink said aggressive ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Australia's top bankers will have to explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive ...

Thousands take-up AustralianSuper clearing house

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
More than 26,000 Australian companies have taken up the offer of a specialised funds clearing house supported by AustralianSuper. Known as QuickSuper, owned and operated by Westpac, the online program manages super payments for companies of all sizes ...

China's deflation limited says ANZ boss

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... audience not to become transfixed by issues of the day, including obsessions with the iron ore price and growth rates, and that big shifts in the global economy are having a deeper, more multi-faceted engagement with Asia.

ASIC investigating false fees in large advice firms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Management Project was designed to specifically scrutinise the conduct of "large advice entities" such as AMP, Macquarie and the "Big Four" banks. According to its statement, as part of the project ASIC has detected "multiple instances of licensees charging ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... fiscal austerity overall to reduce debt burdens but for Australia, we still have long ways to go before our debt levels of the big boys. For us, Australians all, it should be "Now Is the Time! Use EXPANSIONARY Fiscal Policy to Support Sustainable Growth" ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
The Australian share market is trading lower, weighed down by weakness in the big banks. HC Securities senior client adviser Mark Lennox said the banks were lower because investors had already factored in the probability of another interest rate cut ...