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Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... tend to be dominated by companies in just a few sectors and investors who rely on the bulk of their income coming from the big four banks, Telstra and Woolworths should consider seeking income from a high quality global equity portfolio. Capital Group's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... Reserve cooled expectations of an early rate hike, while the euro and yen retreated against the US dollar after racking up big gains in New York. At the close of trade Sydney was 1.86 per cent higher, adding 108.5 points to 5,950.8 while Seoul ended ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... in Europe fell overnight, oil prices plummeted to a fresh six-year low, putting pressure on energy stocks. "It's one of the big drags on the market - down more than one per cent in trading today," CMC Markets chief strategist Michael McCarthy said. Woodside ...

China millennials dictate future of emerging-market investment

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... have to monitor the evolution of these young consumers' spending patterns very carefully," he said. "They're already having a big impact on global consumption," he added. "They love to travel and typically make four trips outside their country each year-twice ...

NAB too big to change culture overnight: Thorburn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn has admitted that cultural change in such large organisation "probably takes five, 10 years," in light of the regulator's concerns about its financial planning arm. Thorburn noted that NAB ...

Not over yet for active management

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... high, as the A$380 billion US pension fund giant CalPERS realised last year when it decided to abandon hedge funds - without big weightings it's hard to justify the effort, fees and risk involved in such exposures. But while optimisation tools have eaten ...

APAC asset managers to invest heavily in data

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... tools and practices will be one of the most powerful agents of change in the investment industry over the next decade." "The big question institutions need to ask themselves is where they are on that journey to what we call 'data dexterity'. Are they ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Say whaaa? Wall Street up - big time (well, relatively) - on the same night that crude oil prices went for another leg down. What ever happened to the headlines of not so long ago that went, "US equities sell off as oil prices tumbles" or something ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... 48 cents to $29.28, Rio Tinto had lost 44 cents to $56.86 and iron or miner Fortescue Metals was flat at $2.00. Among the big four banks, the Commonwealth was down 28 cents at $91.04, Westpac was down 12 cents lower at $37.68, ANZ had fallen 10 cents ...