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Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Here we go again, folks. It'll be another week of backwards and forwards betting on that never-ending, world-changing question of the "when" of the Fed lift-off. Earlier this year, it was so easy. Lift-off soon chatters - back then June was the month ...

Instos seeking co-designed mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and suppressed yields have prompted Australia's largest institutional investors to seek co-designed mandates. Omega Global Investors managing director George Vassos says larger investors are increasingly seeking discrete mandates ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Too bad for Wall Street, the closing bell has already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts ...

Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Angela Mentis, said leading businesses of the future will be those who are confident, optimistic and innovative. "It's no surprise that necessity is truly the mother of invention: industries that are under the most pressure are innovating more than other ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... economy. Expect further weakness in Beijing's foreign purchases of goods and services as the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) surprise devaluation of the yuan last month makes the price of "made in other countries" dearer. Similarly, lower export growth ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
The days of CPI plus 5% investment returns for superannuation funds are gone for the foreseeable future according to a United Kingdom based researcher. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... sensationalised headlines aren't surprising. What's surprising is that financial markets reacted as if the result was a surprise - it wasn't. The official China PMI reading of 49.7 for August was exactly as markets expected. Besides the slowing Chinese ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... grateful for." Wade was soon encouraged into a Diploma of Superannuation Management and quickly discovered, much to her own surprise, that she had a real knack for super. Before the super journey began Wade graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Applied ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... mandates also suffered from performance. In a letter included in the results, managing director Kerr Neilson expressed "surprise" at investors' "seeming unwillingness to lay off their exposure and have more investment in assets abroad" as Australia's ...