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Social media, an investment tool in times of turmoil

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The growing number of users sharing thoughts about finance on social media allows investors to monitor market sentiment almost instantly. When US-based finance social media platform StockTwits recently reached 300,000 active users, analysts considered ...

Fund manager fees too high: David Neal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
Investment management fees are too high and if they remain unchecked then fund managers will find clients moving management capabilities in house or search for cheaper options. That's according to Future Fund managing director David Neal, who made the ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
"There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar Great expectations, everybody's watching you... Everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town." - Eagles Well, not quite yet Virginia but, if recent reports are confirmed there'll be a new kid in the ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Investors with a long term focus could benefit from a strategy that targets low volatility at a moment when it is expected to raise, HSBC global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Australian financials are overpriced and undercapitalised relative to their global counterparts, Perpetual Investments global equities portfolio manager Garry Laurence said. "We feel much more comfortable investing in more attractively valued financials ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
In the absence of an increase in the superannuation guarantee, industry representative groups agree Australians will need to put more money in to their super accounts after changes to the Age Pension were announced in the federal budget. Most changes ...

Age Pension under the spotlight in tonight's budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The 2015 Budget is expected to focus largely on Age Pension reforms that will likely require changes in the approach that the superannuation industry, financial advisers and professional investors take to design retirement strategies. Prior to the release ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street finished mostly higher. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,937. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Financial ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Six years after US financial regulatory mismanagement triggered the GFC, US policy makers are still debating how the US regulatory system should be restructured. The Volcker Alliance, a non-partisan regulatory think tank comprising former senior regulators ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has responded to Labor's suggestion of a 15% tax on super earnings above $75,000, saying, "Labor's default position is always to increase taxes." In an interview, Hockey said he hadn't looked at the "details" of Labor's announcement ...