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SMSF collapses imminent in hunt for yield

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
A chase for yield, combined with investor empowerment and lack of education could be the perfect storm for a large scale self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) collapse, according to Aberdeen Asset Management (Aberdeen). Speaking at a media briefing ...

Aberdeen funds added to mFund service

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Five Aberdeen Asset Management funds are now available via the mFund Settlement Service. The Aberdeen funds offered on the new service cover a range of asset classes including emerging market equities, Asian equities, global equities (including a hedged ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... Especially, because the Japanese equity market had mainly been reacting to the Japanese currency's ups and downs since Shinzo Abe was re-elected Japanese prime minister on December 2012 and the BOJ announced its QE policy in April last year. The Nikkei-225 ...

Movers and shakers

Surprise exit for van Eyk asset consulting team Van Eyk's three person asset consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their ...

Van Eck Global expands Australia team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Van Eck Global has made several appointments to its Australian team to help expand its institutional presence and its exchange traded fund (ETF) business, Market Vectors ETFs. The business has appointed John Caulfield vice president of institutional ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... rate of 6.8% in the June quarter. No worries, this is better than market expectations for a 7.0% contraction. No worries, PM Abe and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) factored in this give back after the growth spurt in the March quarter (up 6.1% annualised) before ...

Abetz backed FSC in case against FWC, Federal Court reveals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) had the backing of Employment Minister Eric Abetz in its Federal Court case against the constitution of the Fair Work Commission's superannuation expert panel, it has emerged. On Friday the Federal Court published ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... early days. The BOJ could still pump mo' money if the economy follows the path it did in 1997. And just last week, we have PM Abe firing the 'the third arrow' of structural reforms. The Japanese government has formally adopted the growth strategy drafted ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

FWC halts default super review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has said it will halt its selection of MySuper funds as default funds under modern awards, after the full Federal Court found the expert panel was incorrectly constituted. In a statement released yesterday the president ...