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Investors concerned smart beta lacks transparency

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... 3.45. The survey obtained responses from 222 professional investors, including chief executives, chief investment officers, heads of asset allocation or heads of portfolio management from 27 European countries. Respondents manage a total of a,-3.3 trillion ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... market because it's state sanctioned. The Politburo wants to run with the bulls. Here's Bloomberg again, "Zhou Xiaochuan, who heads the People's Bank of China and has cut interest rates twice since November, told reporters this month [this was in March] ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... you put money that he'll make Top 10 then go ahead and show us those pearly whites. Let's rejoice for what that "Gal" who heads the Fed said over our weekend. Chair Janet reprised her song about the first quarter weakness was due to "statistical noise" ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... from its hands. The positive is that it would continue easing until it's certain that PM Li gets what PM Li likes. That, or heads will roll. This is good. And these are things we should write home to mother about.

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Venture capitalists, among others, are investing heavily into financial robo advice models yet industry heads say many questions remain unanswered. At a recent Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) forum, Mercer Innovation Hub leader ...

OneVue announces management, strategy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... Mckeage argued that a "major shift" was underway in financial services and that some of her contemporaries were "putting their heads in the sand and pretending the existing model's working, even though it's clearly not working." To illustrate her point ...

Altair appoints heads of research

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... High conviction Australian equities boutique manager Altair Asset Management has appointed Alvin Chan and Tim Riordan as co-heads of research for the investment firm. The announcement follows the recent appointment of former Platinum Asset Management ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... oooh." Another month, another strong and better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report. US businesses added another 295K heads to their payroll (versus expectations for a 230K add) last month on top of solid gains of 239K in January and December's ...

Fixed income offers little equity risk protection: CFM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... use fixed income assets as their central pillar of protection against equity market risk. That's according to one of the heads of the $6 billion French hedge fund and alternatives manager Capital Fund Management (CFM). Philippe Jordan told Financial ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... total social financing." A highfalutin way of saying, "oh-em-gee, growth won't live up to what PM Li likes, hold on to your heads". Perhaps, it was the January "the slowest in decades, the weakest in a quarter of a century, the missed target 7.4% GDP ...