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Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... guru and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett said at the company's recent AGM in Omaha, "Culture is everything at Berkshire." "Culture has to come from the top. It has to be consistent. It has to be part of written communications and ...

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... are very targeted at accumulators, people who are in the on-demand economy, who use the smart phone and want to buy everything - [so] why wouldn't they buy advice?" she said. Bloch said the pre-retirement market is less engaged in robo advice and the ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... the portfolio," but added: "We have no interest in being 'Cinderella' at this ball, staying too late and thus risk everything turning to pumpkin and mice." On the other hand, if the situation in the US remains unchanged, "the decision to increase our ...

PROFILE: Findex chief executive Spiro Paule

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... process in 1994 by mapping all of the processes of our little business," Paule says. The company started collating everything- from how you turn and unlock the door and turning on the lights to how you lock up at night and everything in between. Read ...

Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... started very early on in Australia. Prior to the GFC the lack of transparency was tolerable and even forgivable because everything was going well, even if what led high returns was market growth," Dunn said. Alternative Investment Management Association ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... shame" bank executives. "It is a way of raising the profile of the issue. The hearing puts pressure on them because everything said there is on public record and is reported by the media," he said. He revealed that he will ask executives about the specific ...

Vertically-integrated advice model can work

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... customer on behalf of the shareholder and delivering what's in customers' best interests. We as banks face that in everything that we do." He maintained, though, that this conflict isn't necessarily a flaw if managed properly. "If you do the right things ...

Wealth managers need to be 'service-oriented'

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... industry has yet to address the challenge of redefining the complete spectrum of their value propositions, including everything from the product and service offering to the use of digital channels and the role of the relationship manager," said Deloitte ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... generation' investment manager that celebrates the role of the analyst and places investment performance at the heart of everything we do." During more than 14 years at Platinum Mitchell was a portfolio manager of the flagship Platinum International ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... expensive and, given the current cycle, it reduces the risk of disinflation/deflation. Except for the overseas travel bugs, everything is prettied by an ugly Australian dollar. But here's the rub, Australia's neighbours know that drill too. Not a few ...