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AustralianSuper builds in-house global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
AustralianSuper has already hired four people to its internal global equities team and is on track to manage over $10 billion in international stocks in-house. Australia's largest industry super fund has appointed Richard Ginty to lead the global equities ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a mixed lead from Wall Street where the Dow was dragged lower on a disappointing Procter & Gamble earnings report. At 0754 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
The Australian share market is set to open higher after another positive session on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7 per cent after the US Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at near-zero per cent and gave no fresh ...

Platinum launches Asia LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... aiming to raise up to $500 million before the acceptance of any oversubscriptions. The offer will open on 10 August and close on 7 September and CBA Equities has been appointed as sole arranger to the initial public offering (IPO). The fund is a listed ...

Advisers need to collaborate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
The financial advice industry depends on collaboration between planners, according to Complete Financial Balance principal Brendan Cox. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney, Cox - whose company won the 2014 ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... bargain-hunting after recent China-inspired losses. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of blue-chip companies won 0.77 per cent to close at 6,555.28 points, encouraged also by data showing the British economy rebounded by 0.7 per cent in the second quarter. ...

Gen Y can drive SMSF growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... trustees are considerably more likely to hold insurance in some form, with two thirds (66.7%) of Generation Y trustees and close to three quarters (73.2%) of Generation X trustees being insured."

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Declining bond yields, an uncertain equities landscape and an appetite for diversification are driving institutions towards alternative assets. Alex Burke investigates whether this is the right idea. When Perpetual acting general manager for regulated ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... closed 2.4% higher at 4,124. Eighteen real estate developers jumped by the daily 10% limit. For some investors, it was too close for comfort. On Friday, stocks ended lower with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index falling 1.29% to close at 4,071 points. ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... lunch in Adelaide. In Australia, the market on Monday recovered from early jitters to end a run of three straight losses and close the day higher. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 23.8 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 5589.9. The broader All Ordinaries ...