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New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
A newly launched simulation and forecasting engine developed by Vanguard has tipped global equities as the most likely asset class to achieve a 6% to 9% annualised return over the next decade. The range is roughly the same level of return targeted by ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
And an oil, oil here, oil, oil there, everywhere an oil, oil. It had been on a slippery slope since prices peaked in the dying days of June this year, but 'twas only last week when the headlines splattered oil all over our faces and onto market consciousness. ...

AMP, Vanguard and ASIC join forces to simplify disclosure

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
AMP and Vanguard are taking part in an Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) initiative to produce simpler financial product guides. ASIC may also work with other product providers in the future and is expecting to release preliminary results ...

Perpetual hires senior investment specialist

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
Perpetual Investments has appointed a senior investment specialist to provide technical product and asset class investment support to advisers. James Holt will join Perpetual in early December from Zurich, where he has served as an investment specialist ...

ME Bank appoints new CIO

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
ME Bank has appointed a new chief information officer from GE Capital Group. Mark Gay will commence in the role on 27 January 2015 following the departure of current CIO Kathryn Hawkins, who will finish in November 2014. The bank said the appointment ...

Further raise pension age, says Future Leaders winner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
AMP Capital Portfolio Analyst Stephen Flegg has won the 2014 Future Leaders Award, run jointly by the Financial Services Council and Deloitte. This year, competitors were asked to prepare presentations on one of four hot topics: MySuper and competition ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
As a student of economics, I've heard about John Maynard Keynes' 'Paradox of Thrift', David Ricardo's 'Ricardian Equivalence Theory', A Alan Greenspan's 'Interest Rate Conundrum' (which appears to be making a return performance in the US) and of course ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The active versus passive debate is one that has raged for decades but with the latest figures showing a steady increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems ...

Hedge fund growth problem not helped by new products

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Hedge fund managers pinning their hopes on new products to drive inflows and business growth are underestimating the costs involved as well as the effect on margins, a new report from EY has found. The global survey compared opinions from 100 hedge ...

Super funds out-growing local real estate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
Australian super funds are fast out-growing the domestic real estate market and the largest will soon join the likes of AustralianSuper and the Future Fund in acquiring large overseas assets directly, according to real estate investment manager TIAA ...