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Implemented Portfolios appoints former BlackRock MD

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Former BlackRock Australia managing director Adam Seccombe has joined Implemented Portfolios in a full-time role to assist the business with the next stage of its growth. Seccombe was responsible for launching BlackRock's ETF business, iShares, in Australia ...

PIMCO moves to calm investors in wake of 'bond king' exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
PIMCO is calling for calm amid the uncertainty which has followed the surprise departure of star manager Bill Gross, reassuring local investors that returns will not suffer. "We manage nearly $2 trillion globally in client assets and we are confident ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Have dip... will buy. That's last week's story on Wall Street - the big dip on Thursday followed by a rebound the next day - and only because I got tired (as you too probably have) of hearing of what's developing to be Wall Street's 2014 anthem - Chumbawamba's ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Trilogy Funds makes $9m property investment

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Property fund manager Trilogy Funds will buy an $8.95 million commercial property in Melbourne's north-west. 271-279 Robinsons Road in Ravenhall was constructed in 2011 by Pellicano Group as part of their northwest Orbis Business Park. The three-level ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... Whoopsie, I mean worry. It's been nearly three months since the ECB first cut rates and went negative on the deposit rates in June (and cut again and gone even more negative earlier this month) and still we get this. And as for the first TLTRO the ECB ...

ASIC bans former Synchron adviser

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a former Synchron financial adviser from providing financial services for five years for failing to provide Statements of Advice (SOAs). Michael Richard Irwin, a Rockhampton-based ...

Aluminum windows and ferries: the case for small-cap investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
With most investors allocating much of their equity towards the big four and resources, Perennial Investment Partners has made a case for investing in small companies that make aluminum windows or own the Kangaroo Island ferries. "We see some near-term ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... on the charts again... that's why. The dots show that FOMC participants' median fed funds rate higher this month than in June - 1.375% versus June's 1.125% at the end of next year; 2.875% versus 2.50% by end-2016; and, 3.75% by end 2017 (not forecasted ...