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Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... recession is quite high," Roberts said. Roberts added his view that the rise in bond yields is a also blip in the United States where the Federal Reserve continues to prepare markets for the first official interest rate increase in a decade. He said ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... including Brazil and South Korea. The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, and Norway also figure prominently. The United States, the largest fund market and one with a long history in PHD, has a regulated requirement of quarterly disclosure, but a ...

FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... financial institutions were intervened by governments, others collapsed. Quantitative easing (QE) started in the United States, while the rest of the world braced against unemployment and negative growth. While Australia managed to escape the worst consequences ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... starting to move its way. The wish and hope and prayer is for a bounce in the second quarter, most especially in the United States. This would keep the Fed lift-off in play and push the dollar-A lower. But the same strength in the US dollar could also ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... regulatory changes such as the Basel III rules that will require banks to hold more capital, or the Volcker Rule in the United States that limits the bank's relationships with hedge funds and private equity funds to prevent them from making speculative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... Schaeuble has invited his counterparts and their central bank chiefs from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, for the gathering that kicks off later on Wednesday. Meantime, markets were attentive to reports quoting Greek government ...

Old families make way for self-made billionaires

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... launched their first business venture before the age of 30 and that a total of 68% did so before turning 40. In the United States, the top sector for self-made billionaires was financial services (30%), with the average wealth at $4.5 billion. Asian ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... a prospectus for a global infrastructure listed investment company that will be managed by Cohen&Steers from the United States. Cohen&Steers senior vice president Benjamin Morton argued: "There are only 10 to 15 infrastructure companies in Australia. ...

QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific infrastructure assets ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... Perpetual's total FUA within its responsible entity business compared to less than a quarter at the start of 2014. In the United States flows into alternative strategies have tripled in the past five years and assets under management now total more than ...