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Wilson HTM shareholders approve acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... Bank (20%). Wilson HTM Securities and Advisory will look after WIG's private wealth, corporate advisory, institutional equities and research divisions. At the same time, Wilson HTM created the role of head of capital markets and appointed Rob Snow to ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... October 2014 (the same month and year the Fed was all tapered out) - more so now that considered already overvalued US equities are higher and hence, more overvalued. Cast your minds back to 6 May 2015 - the time when Yellen said that, "I would highlight ...

SG Hiscock ICE fund added to Asgard

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... addition reflects growing interest in, and support for, funds that look outside the mainstream ASX100 for Australian equities investments and who adopt the franchise investing style. "We believe that the fund is well placed to perform in a variety of ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... Thursday, National Australia Bank will release its consumer anxiety index and official job vacancies figures are due out. In equities news, Atlas Iron holds its annual general meeting. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed a touch higher as a ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... traditional emphasis on asset allocation has given way to a focus on returns, which has led to the "bondification" of equities, a global report found. The 2015 CREATE-Research report commissioned by Principal Global Investors (PGI) found that 70% of ...

Cbus hires equities investment specialist

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Cbus has appointed a former Nomura Asset Management senior portfolio manager to the role of equities investment specialist. Kiran Singh will start on the role with Cbus on 27 July and he will relocate to Australia from Singapore, where he worked for ...

Infrastructure returns beat equities, bonds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Global infrastructure returns outperformed bonds and equities in the year to Q1 2015. This is based on MSCI's Global Quarterly Infrastructure Asset Index, which shows global infrastructure returned 18.1%. This compares favourably to MSCI's global indices ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... we want to be able to take advantage of buying opportunities as they arise," Leyland explains, adding that bond-like equities in traditionally defensive sectors look particularly vulnerable to a correction. "You need the valuation discipline to spot ...

Milliman seeing shift in bond portfolios

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... credits. Matterson said these are well above short term cash rates. Matterson said there had been a lot of managed risk equities products launched in Australia over the last 18 months. He said the likes of Plato and BetaShares had launched products as ...

Prime Value appoints distribution head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... has also held positions at NAB, Macquarie Bank and Merrill Lynch. At Prime Value, he will manage the company's retail equities strategies, which currently include the Prime Value Opportunities Fund, Prime Value Growth Fund and Prime Value Imputation ...