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End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Tempo Asset Management joined the ranks of global equities managers who are forecasting the end of the United States bull market. The third largest bull market in the US history has delivered "a remarkable performance but it's also very unusual," Tempo ...

PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... had no girlfriend. So all those things said to me: go to London," he says. After a few months backpacking in the United States, where he explored the underground jazz scene, Forster landed in London, where he soon found a job at ANZ Grindlays Bank, an ...

AustralianSuper buys $370m stake in Boston building

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... 75 State Street as a result of its strong tenancy profile and prime location in one of the leading cities in the United States." AustralianSuper's property portfolio has now over $7 billion in assets and plans to have around 10% of the fund's assets ...

Henderson launches dividend-seeker fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... easier and safer way to analyse a company." The fund is currently invested in large technology companies based in the United States, such as Cisco. About 15% of the portfolio is allocated in pharmaceuticals, with a focus on "new treatments that could ...

PIMCO appoints Bernanke to advice role

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
PIMCO has appointed former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke as senior adviser. Bernanke will contribute his economic expertise and insights to the firm's investment process and periodically engage PIMCO's clients, the bond ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... Capital that flowed into emerging markets could flow out again, perhaps when interest rates begin to rise in the United States. That would probably occur alongside an appreciating US dollar. So the distribution of credit risk and foreign currency risk ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Boutique fund manager Tempo Asset Management is turning its global smart beta strategy away from the United States and Canada and finding growth in Europe and Asia. Tempo principal Joe Bracken told Financial Standard that the Tempo Global Equity Fund ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index shed 3.23 (0.06 per cent) at 5,007.79. New construction of homes in the United States rose 2.0 per cent to an annual rate of 926,000 units, the Commerce Department said, a smaller increase than expected. Initial ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... at the end of 2014..." "Australia's increase will also be more than 10 times the 3 per cent rise expected in the United States... Germany's debt-to-GDP will fall 25 per cent to 37.1 per cent." It couldn't get any gloomier than this, could it? But by ...

Decimal Software partners with US fintech giant

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
ASX-listed Decimal Software has partnered with United States fintech company Yodlee to enter the US market for the first time. Decimal confirmed it has already opened an office in the country and expects to benefit from Yodlee's platform, which counts ...