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Political donations pay off

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... ensured the best outcome, companies that gave only to the Liberal or National Parties experienced better share price performance than those who only gave to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Political Monitor research identified over thirty companies ...

QIC executive departs for Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
QIC's head of investment performance and risk has left the company to manage a sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East. Having joined QIC in 2008 as head of investment compliance and risk management, Sam O'Sullivan moved to his previous role in 2012. ...

HLB Mann Judd appoints director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... Sydney's business advisory division. Blecich joined the firm of accountants and business advisers in 2011 as business performance improvement manager. She has more than eight years' experience in business performance improvement, specifically assisting ...

FICAP Rockstar winners announced

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... a Rockstar competition were crowned last night, with BlackRock's Adam Hess given the highest honour for his fiery performance of The Killers' Mr Brightside. Hess was also given the Challenger Best Male Artist Award. Perpetual's Theresa Le was awarded ...

FSC announces life insurance award winners

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... spoke about the state of the life insurance industry, saying that it has "turned a corner, with efforts to improve performance gaining traction, especially with respect to improved lapse experience." "Group life experience also looks set to improve and ...

Wealth managers need to be 'service-oriented'

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... fee models, too, with the research illustrating the growing appetite for value-based pricing, all-in-one models and performance fees; respondents were also conscious of the need to deliver these services (and charge for them) through multiple digital ...

Australia missing out on $34.5bn tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... scored 52.7 out of 100, compared to top ranked Netherlands on 75. Accenture estimates that if Australia improved its performance by 10 points, it could lift annual GDP growth rates by 0.25% over the next five years, resulting in an estimated $34.5 billion ...

YBR boutique wins $50 million mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... Active Cash Fund (Assisted Units) also received a five-star Morningstar Rating, based on its three-year risk-adjusted performance. In the year to 28 February 2015, the fund returned 4.1% after fees to its wholesale investors. "Smarter Money Active Cash ...

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... The World Dividend Growers has been available to off-shore investors since 2012 and already has a strong three-year performance history. The fund invests in a portfolio of around 70 stocks from a variety of developed and emerging markets including the ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...