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Wealth transfer poses advice business risk

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... mean the end of those relationships throughout the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. New GlobalData research shows while millionaires represent just 0.2% of the world's population, they hold over 30% of the world's investable assets. ...

Oxford University assisting Aussie advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... Risk Rating Online platform is designed by academics and finance industry professionals and uses the latest available research to place investors on a risk scale relative to the wider investor demographic. The tool is fully compliant with FSC and ASIC ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Bullish on growth, not so on inflation. This is the unifying message from three of the world's major central banks that met over the past 24 hours. As widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept monetary policy settings unchanged - discount rate at ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
Australia's inflation numbers are out! And it's got something for everyone - hawks, doves and in-betweeners - in terms of RBA monetary policy direction. This is because the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index's latest report ...

Millennials' financial heartache drives P2P lending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... through the platform in the next 12 months. "P2P lending is now widely recognised as a credible investment, and this research certainly gives a strong vote of confidence from active investors," Foggo said. "We have reached the $100m milestone sooner ...

We must lead by example: Loane

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... for work." Loane also reinforced the value of financial advice, explaining that only 31% of Australian women seek it. "Research from the 2015 Women & Finance Report clearly shows that women who do get financial advice are more likely to own their home ...

Factor investing must be long-term: Vanguard

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... portfolio performance rather than purely targeting outperformance through factor-based funds. The fund manager's latest research also says an investor must consider whether it is patient enough to weather underperformance of a certain factor over short ...

Investment manager appoints head of machine learning

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... innovative collaboration with the University of Oxford, the Oxford-Man Institute (OMI), which focuses on cutting-edge research into machine learning techniques and data analytics.

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
With friends like these, who needs Kim Jong-un! Just when the drumbeats of war - the nuclear kind - have recently been withdrawing from the headlines, US president Donald Trump could be starting another, a trade war. Sure, Trump's protectionist' policy ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
"The French complain of everything, and always," Napoleon Bonaparte once said. The French made known their disenchantment with the establishment political parties - both the Republican and Socialist parties failed to garner enough support to make it ...