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Decumulation will drive investment focus shift: AXA IM

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
Institutional investors are shifting investment strategies in search of income generation and inflation protection over the long term in response to the advent of the superannuation decumulation phase, AXA Investment Managers believes. According to ...

Oil's not so slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
It has only been less than a month - 25 May -- since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced the extension of crude oil production cuts by nine months to the last day of March 2018 but oil prices are sliding again. The deal ...

Millennials choosing stock market over housing market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
As the prospect of owning their own home becomes less of a reality, millennials are turning to the stock market to invest and build their wealth. New insights from CommSec reveal more than half of all new customers are under the age of 35, with the ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
Central bank decisions, forward guidance or even a word change in policy statements move markets. Not that anyone has to be reminded about this truism of course. The world's four major central banks - the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE - and the ...

New analyst for Lennox Capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... Capital Partners. Joining from Moelis & Company, Olivia Bible brings more than five years' experience in finance and equity research to the firm. While at Moelis she advised Australian and international institutional equity investors on equity investments ...

Fintechs must collaborate, not disrupt: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
Fintechs are failing to prove themselves and disrupt the financial services industry, and should instead seek to collaborate with the larger players, a new study shows. The joint report from consulting and technology company Capgemini and the University ...

Altius flags key appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... two senior appointments and an open position in a June fund update. First, Yen Wong has joined Altius as head of credit research. She was previously deputy head of global credit research, responsible investment champion and credit analyst at Colonial ...

Gen Y leading retirement readiness: research

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
More than half of Generation Y respondents in a recent RaboDirect survey indicated they would be adequately funded for retirement, compared to 31% of Gen Xers and 30% of baby boomers. The findings came out of RaboDirect's Super & Retirement Report ...

Vale John O'Connell

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... distinguished career at Macquarie, starting as a senior analyst in the 1990s, before going on to be Macquarie's global head of research where he built a leading global research team. In 2016, the Group, on O'Connell's recommendation, made the move to ...

Greater adoption of tech in new world of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
... profitability (54%). Despite the expectation of greater efficiencies afforded through technology, the inaugural AdviceTech Research Report identifies certain back office technologies have had low adoption rates with some showing no indication they will ...