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Shaw lands wave of Macquarie advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Shaw and Partners, formerly Shaw Stockbroking, has expanded its new financial advice team with five new appointments, including three ex-Macquarie advisers. Since restructuring as a holistic wealth management business and recruiting Macquarie Private ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Hedge funds should be thriving in the unusual low return environment. But instead of turning to the rock stars of funds management, investors are choosing safer and cheaper options. As managers warn about an Australian brain drain, experts talk about ...

QSuper announces new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Following the departure of Rosemary Vilgan in July, QSuper has announced its new chief executive. QSuper chief strategy officer Michael Pennisi will replace Vilgan as the new chief executive in October. The fund's chairman, Karl Morris, said Pennisi ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
Platinum Asset Management reported an increase in net profit after tax of 12.4%, but results for the financial year were impacted by below-benchmark performance. Net profit after tax for the year to 30 June 2015 was $213.5 million, compared to $189.9 ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
Ask not when the Fed would start raising interest rates but whether the Fed should re-launch QE. Let's take a trip back to 29 July, Virginia - the day the Fed released its policy statement at the conclusion of its 28-29 July FOMC meeting - it was sliced ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
The 2.7% drop in Thailand's SET index and the half a percent drop in the Thai baht to 38.58 versus the US dollar - the lowest since April 2009 -- dominated the financial press headlines the day after the night (17 August) Bangkok was bombed. As it should. ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
Alpha Fund Managers has become the first Australian investor in a global asset manager's absolute return bond fund. Standard Life Investments' Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Trust aims to return cash plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Whoa! If this is an indication of things to come, then you can forget a lift-off in September, or in December... perhaps, forget all about it for all of next year. Yes Virginia, I refer to the drop in the Empire State Manufacturing Index. And girl ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...