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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following solid gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0658 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,615. In Australia, company earnings season continues with ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rose despite a lacklustre US retail sales report and some disappointing earnings announcements. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 25 points ...

PROFILE: Australian Unity PFS CEO Steve Davis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Born in Queensland and raised in Fiji, the United States and Perth, Steve Davis was a professional basketball player. But the financial services industry drew his interest and became his passion, he tells Laura Millan. Today, Davis is chief executive ...

Drastically limit number of default funds: Grattan CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
The government should limit the number of superannuation funds providing default super to around five if it wants to reduce fees, according to Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley. Speaking at a superannuation roundtable hosted by Bravura Solutions ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
It was to be a non-event. Financial markets didn't expect the head of the world's biggest and mightiest central bank to deviate much - if at all - from her rhetoric of days gone by - when she delivers her semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy ...

Financial services stars named in rich list

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Some of Australia's best known investment talent has been named in BRW's latest rebalancing of its annual rich list. In tenth place, Platinum Asset Management co-founder Kerr Neilson was the highest placed financial services executive with an estimated ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after escalating violence in Iraq spooked investors and falling iron ore prices continued to pressure mining stocks at the end of last week. At 0822 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures ...

Firms urged to get ready for SuperStream

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is urging businesses to get ready for a new, simpler system to pay their staff's superannuation contributions. From July 1, businesses can opt in to use SuperStream, an electronic payments system that treats all ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The prospect of rising interest rates has forced institutional investors to sit up and take notice of product innovations in the fixed income market. But with so many strategies to choose from, how do large investors and their advisers choose the right ...

Pohl launches mandate hunt as non-compete clause expires

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
The expiry of a two-year non-compete clause with Hyperion Asset Management has cleared the way for Manny Pohl's new business to target institutional investors again. The former Hyperion managing director has wasted no time in telling institutional prospects ...