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ANZ director retires after nine years

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
An ANZ director retired following the bank's annual general meeting having served on the board for nine years. Former RBA governor and distinguished economist Ian Macfarlane became an ANZ director in 2007; at the time, he also became a director at Woolworths. ...

Asset managers must consider multi-asset

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... investment options to reduce costs within portfolios. Cerulli Europe managing director Barbara Wall said: "Asset managers need to bear this in mind when building solutions. Our research indicates that 36.4% of DFMs will increase their passive investments ...

Finsia scholarship winner named

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... and charge for it, and they're demanding gender and ethnically diverse advisors with a range of perspectives to bring to bear," Cassidy said. "There are no signs that the rate of change is slowing. Wharton will build my leadership skills to navigate ...

AMP Capital execs depart in investment shake-up

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
AMP Capital has made major changes to its global equities and fixed income businesses. As part of the restructure, AMP Capital's current head of macro Ilan Dekell will take control of all macro and core portfolio management functions, while head of ...

Uncertain environment fuelling risky investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
The prospect of a Donald Trump victory and the continuance of historically low interest rates by the RBA are placing increased pressure on self-funded retirees and increasing opportunity risk, says Australian Unity. Head of Australian Unity David Bryant ...

Milliman and Frontier explore new retirement product

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... Under a rainy day approach, a member could invest the assets in line with the amount of investment risk they are willing to bear," a co-authored white paper said. "The DLA converts to an immediate annuity at a guaranteed rate - the retiree will know ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
It seems so long ago now but at the start of October (or thereabouts), we were treated to several regional Fedspeaks -- including, among others, Cleveland Federal Reserve president Loretta Mester, Richmond Federal Reserve president Jeffrey Lacker, Kansas ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... investors] demonstrate a belief both that markets work and that, in the absence of insights, holding the market enables them to bear systematic equity risk and capture the equity risk premium. "Blaming benchmarks for the weight they attribute to an asset ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... remaining at current levels. While this means lower returns for fixed-income investors, it also means that the much feared bear market in bonds remains some way off and, with luck and careful policy management by central banks, may yet be avoided," said ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...