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AvSuper to expand in-house investment team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
AvSuper has appointed a former executive of the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) to build out its in-house investment team. Sue Field joined AvSuper in July 2015 and she will also be responsible for monitoring and managing the members' ...

ASIC bans former NAB-aligned adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
ASIC has banned a former adviser from Meritum Financial Group, which is wholly owned by NAB. Alfie Chong worked at Meritum from September 2005 to March 2006, and then July 2007 to June 2014. During that time, ASIC has alleged that Chong engaged in a ...

FEATURE - Retirement income: Finding the right path

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
A new wave of retirees is learning that years of accumulation need further thought. Darren Snyder reports. A recent Commonwealth Bank media roundtable showed projections by Rice Warner that Australia's retirement market would reach more than $1.4 trillion ...

Star global equity manager to launch in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
Denver-based fund manager Marsico Capital Management is going head-to-head with the likes of Magellan and Platinum, bringing its top-performing global equity strategy to Australian institutional investors. The boutique, headed by star manager Tom Marsico ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Finally, it's here that long speculated week when the Fed decides. It's crunch time all around folks. Each and every FOMC voting member and his dog and cat must be busily crunching the numbers as I type to give an intelligent and convincing rationale ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
We're now heading into the home stretch people - the weekend before the week the Fed meets and decides. The FOMC has a full week from today to make up its mind and us, lesser mortals, the same time to speculate and rumour-monger about what on Janet ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
It couldn't have come soon enough. Hopes that China's powers-that-are would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
It's back! And it's good! Yes Virginia, the "bad news is good news" trade is back on. It's risk back on as China's bad -- very, very bad, trade data sparked hopes of further stimulus and Fed lift-off delay. As 'The Guardian' reports, the latest trade ...

Former Madison FG adviser banned

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
ASIC has banned a former Madison Financial Group adviser for five-and-a-half years. Michael Kolody worked as a Madison representative between July 2010 and January 2014. ASIC's statement said that during that time, he provided inappropriate advice ...