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Climate risk underappreciated: BlackRock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... for investment portfolios: physical technological, regulatory and social. Unlike other factors, regulatory risks can surprise investors and can upset the status quo. "Unlike slow-burning and sporadic physical climate events, regulatory events are here ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... market expectations for an increased surplus to US$58.0 billion. The expectations miss appear to have been due to the surprise increase in imports -- up 1.5% in the year to July. The expansion in imports in July is the first positive growth rate in 22 ...

Capital not enough to prevent failures

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... "Disorderly failures, on the other hand, are to be avoided. Disorderly failures will be those which catch everyone by surprise, impose significant losses on those who the regulatory framework seeks to protect, and/or involve significant disruption to ...

Vocus founder partners to launch new fund manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
The founder and former chief executive of listed business telco provider Vocus Communications has launched an asset management firm. James Spenceley formed Vocus in 2008; in September last year, it merged with M2 Group to become a major $3 billion player ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... levels of interest rates for very much longer. They have to start to move up and when they do they could move up and surprise us with the degree of rapidity which may occur". However, this appears inconsistent with his earlier comment about the US being ...

SMSF trustees increasing use of planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... selection of ETFs. In the current environment of market uncertainty and softer expectations for domestic investments, it's no surprise to see trustees wanting professional help in validating their investment strategies and portfolio construction," Peker ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... depositor base by diverting part of the rate cut to increased depositor interest rates rather reduced mortage rates should surprise no one. Indonesian, Philippine bond indices surge The S&P Pan Asia Bond Index is a composite bond index that tracks local ...

Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
The AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF) will be wound up following the vote at today's EGM. Opening the EGM, AMP Capital Funds Management chair Adam Tindall said that "a lot has changed" since the fund's establishment in 2006. "Markets move on, regulations ...

Micro-investment app hits 100,000 users in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
Over 100,000 users have signed up to micro-investment savings app Acorns following its Australian debut six months ago. The app, which gives users the opportunity to "round up" individual purchases - a $3.50 coffee, for example, becomes $4 - and invest ...

Super gets reality check on engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... find lost super, before any of those messages can make sense to people, we've got some basic problems to address." Of surprise to Kirkland is how little consumers know about super. In the research sessions he attended MySuper failed to be mentioned by ...