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Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
The financial advice profession is likely to disappear and planners could be replaced by robots. That is the finding of a new study which reveals that machines could easily provide financial advice to consumers thanks to complex algorithms. Financial ...

Perpetual jettisons Guardian Trust

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
Perpetual has sold The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company to Complectus for NZ$68.5 million ($63.3 million). The move follows Perpetual's December 2013 acquisition of The Trust Company which owned Guardian Trust. Perpetual said The New Zealand business ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have stepped in to address what the association calls a "campaign of misinformation" ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The size at which a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) becomes a viable alternative to regular funds may be considerably higher than the industry currently estimates due to the impact of scale on performance. The industry typically advises that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat with Wall Street little changed as investors digest a series of economic data ahead of Friday's big US jobs report for March. At 0805 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six ...

Blue Sky Water appoints investment director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Blue Sky Water Partners, a division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited, has appointed Michael Blakeney as investment director. Blue Sky said Blakeney brings considerable management and investment experience across a range of agricultural enterprises ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
A change of noun is all it took. Yes Virginia, by just changing the noun that followed the word "considerable", Fed Chair Janet Yellen put the smile back on many a-Wall Streeter's faces. Less than two weeks ago, Janet explained the considerable "time" ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

Capital Fund Management launches half-price hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
French alternatives manager Capital Fund Management (CFM) has launched a new product aimed at institutional investors with half the fees typically offered by hedge funds. The Institutional Systematic Diversified (ISD) Fund blends three quantitative ...

Finance broker pleads guilty to car scam identity theft

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
A former finance broker has admitted to stealing the identities of former clients so she could buy two cars, sell them to acquaintances and keep the cash from the sale. Riyanka Puteri Shiraz, of Canterbury, New South Wales, appeared before Sydney's ...