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Financial Sector Advisory Council back in action

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... Advisory Council has been reconstructed with new appointments and a mandate to advise the federal government on regulator performance as well as its implementation of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The rebuilt Council will have nine members and ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... about impact investing had historically been difficult because they were often seen as finance-first investors whereby performance or financial returns formulated any specific impact objective. Yet Dezelan said the conversation had now shifted from words ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
It's May! Time to go away! Somehow I think the Australian equity market didn't get this memo. Like a thumb - not the sore one but the one in the OK sign - the All Ordinaries index stuck out with a 0.8% gain in the first week of May while most others ...

BTIM reveals strong results

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... results, revealing a 33% increase to cash net profit after tax (NPAT) to $88.6 million driven by a combination of higher performance fees, the expansion of operating and fee margins, higher average FUM and favourable currency movements. Statutory NPAT ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... effective during times of market distortions and that the highest future returns have historically been on offer when the performance differential between value and growth investing is at its greatest. Some examples include the Australian recession of ...

Westpac net profit up 3pc

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... particularly in SMW, with margins stable over the period." He added: "However, sector headwinds contributed to a softer performance in other divisions. In particular, Westpac Institutional Bank was affected by lower net interest margins and significantly ...

Multi-asset products continue to grow

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... said Newman. Multi-asset strategies are often seen as an effective way to generate solid risk-adjusted returns, with performance driven predominantly by asset class diversification. However Newman warns that in periods of systematically low growth, even ...

Global real estate offers investors diversified approach

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... various international property markets. This means that a fall in one property market will have limited impact on the performance of the fund," said Parkin.

Milliman calls out "failures of diversification"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... "control volatility" using direct risk management so as to "turbocharge compound returns." The report compared the performance of the S&P 500 to the S&P 500 15% Risk Controlled Index since 2009, and noted that while the former returned 111.31% and the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... 0.5%, respectively. The increase in total revenue collected was limited by a 26.5% drop in "taxes on use of goods and performance" which the ABS explained as "largely driven by the carbon tax repeal". US durable goods orders More indications that the ...