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CFS to distribute Sanlam funds in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
Colonial First State has partnered with South African asset manager Sanlam Group to distribute Sanlam's Managed Risk Funds in Australia. According to CFS general manager product and investments Peter Chun, Sanlam's Managed Risk strategy pivots on reducing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street. At 0649 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 22 points at 5,687. Locally on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank releases minutes of its May board meeting ...

Lazard lowers minimum investments on four funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
The minimum investment in four Lazard Asset Management funds has dropped by $80,000 in a bid to attract self-managed super fund investors. Lazard's Australian Equity Fund; Select Australian Equity Fund; Australian Diversified Income Fund; and Global ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." -Paul Joseph Goebbels It may not be as sinister as what Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister intended it to be but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

ASIC seeks more bans in SMSF advice crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
ASIC is seeking banning orders ranging from 7.5 years to permanent for individuals participating in providing unlicensed advice to SMSF investors. The regulator has provided submissions to the Federal Court, specifically mentioning property developer ...

New initiative to improve women's economic health

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced a partnership with not-for-profit 10thousandgirl in a bid to improve the financial literacy and economic health of women in regional areas. The partnership will see the FPA play an ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open lower, following a flat lead from Wall Street. At 0653 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 23 points at 5,682. Locally on Thursday, Westfield Corporation holds its annual ...

SEC and FINRA issue robo warning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has issued a warning to investors regarding what it calls 'automated investment tools,' a group of web-based tools that include robo-advisers. The warning, prepared by the SEC's Office of Investor Education ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Yes! This was my jubilant exclamation as I watched the S&P/ASX 200 index started climbing from the get go yesterday. Yup, I expected as much given the good news on or before "Mother's Day" - goldilocks US employment report, clam in the bond markets ...