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FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Low economic growth and wavering investment confidence in the wake of the global financial crisis has turned a stampede of investors onto the portfolio boosting benefits of income-paying investments. But understanding the many options available can ...

Unconstrained fixed income funds gaining institutional support

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
As central banks grapple with quantitative easing and markets look towards a period of instability, institutional investors are rethinking traditional fixed income approaches. Henderson Global Investors head of fixed income Phil Apel told Financial ...

HESTA appoints general manager of member advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
HESTA has appointed a general manager of member advice to coordinate its team of superannuation financial planners that provide one-on-one personal advice to members. Tracee Mulvihill started in the role on July and is general manager along with Megan ...

IFM Investors appoints senior Vanguard executive

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
IFM Investors has appointed former Vanguard executive Julie Andrews as director of business development. Andrews was previously head of institutional sales at Vanguard and before was a director at index provider FTSE in Australia. Her appointment follows ...

Link Group to buy Superpartners

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Link Group is set to buy member administrator Superpartners from its industry super fund owners, AustralianSuper, HESTA, Cbus, HOSTPLUS and MTAA Super. The five funds today announced they would enter a heads of agreement with Link Group "for the provision ...

Opposition wants to postpone vote on FoFA bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Labor and the Greens have asked the government to postpone again the vote on the changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation until the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) releases its conclusions. "Labor Senators urge the government to withdraw ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Fifteen point zero nine points or just a little over 0.28%. This is all the All Ordinaries index need to slip by today to take it back to square one - where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped ...

Market Wrap AM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following a mixed result on Wall Street where the Dow reached another record high but the Nasdaq fell. At 0808 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,408 ...

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 ...

Westpac fined over misleading statements on annuity product

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
Westpac has had to pay a $20,400 penalty for potentially misleading statements on its Westpac Annuity Deposit. The bank has paid the penalty after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission issued two infringement notices regarding the product ...