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Hedge funds were top alternatives performers in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
Hedge funds accounted for over half of the asset growth across alternatives in 2014, despite their underwhelming performance during the past year, a Preqin report found. In 2014, hedge funds posted returns of 3.78%, which represents the lowest average ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... membership rolls expanded by 4.3 million to 57.4 million in the fourth quarter. The streaming video firm said they expect to top 61 million subscribers by the end of the current quarter. Leading healthcare group UnitedHealth beat expectations for earnings ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
The Australian share market is higher after BHP Billiton's latest production report helped spark a rally in resources stocks. The market is more than one per cent higher, with BHP and Rio Tinto leading the charge. BHP on Wednesday announced it had lifted ...

I'm with Bill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Ahh yes, it's the time of the year again folks...the time when the World Bank WEP) releases its crystal ball's read on the year ahead....and despite the myriad of 'Happy New Year' wishes wished upon us when 2014 became 2015, the WB's crystal ball says ...

Surging group premiums push insurer inflows up 12.9 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... analysis by insurance industry researcher Plan For Life for the 12 months to September 2014. According to the researcher, the top three insurers by premium inflow market share are TAL, AMP and AIA which together control 43% of the market. Two years ago ...

Wealth Know How teams with Pro Adviser

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Wealth Know How, Australia's fastest growing provider of independent financial videos, has partnered with Pro Adviser to engage and educate consumers through online videos. The partnership will allow Pro Adviser's website to show a cross-section of ...

Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... Carney reported in a tech industry blog last week that Google has lodged insurance licensing applications in 28 US states. On top of that she said Google is already working with eight insurers authorised to handle transactions - a list that includes ...

Platinum backs US internet stocks and Asian infrastructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... argument why they should both grow and remain decidedly more profitable than the typical company in the S&P 500 Index." The top-performing manager has also picked up new infrastructure focused investments in the largest of the emerging market economies ...

Standard Life Inv launches global equity strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
... five years, the fund has returned 86.7% compared to the benchmark return of 64.4% (in US dollar terms). It also ranks in the top quartile versus its global peer group over a one year period and the top decile over three and five years, according to Morningstar ...

Adviser remuneration "critical": Trowbridge Interim Report

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
The quality of advice and the remuneration of adviser incentives were raised as "critical" areas in the interim report of the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group (LIAWG) established by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial ...