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No such thing as a must own company: Analyst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... stock selection, the strategy that underpins the fund is a fundamentals-based, unconstrained approach, with bottom-up research conducted in-house. The portfolio holdings represent high conviction ideas from a universe of global investment opportunities. ...

Compliance and cybersecurity keeping bankers awake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
Regulatory pressures and cybersecurity are the main areas of concern for Australian bankers, the 2017 EY Global Banking Outlook report shows. One-hundred per cent of the banking executives surveyed said enhancing cybersecurity and complying with consumer ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
Markets received their regular does of adrenalin again yesterday when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest stats on the country's labour market. The seasonally adjusted numbers showed total employment dropped by 6,400 in February ...

Robo-advice portfolios benefiting from quant factors

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... approaches to building indices: thematic indices, based on investment themes; and factor indices, based on empirical research of past investment returns. While the former approach is based on a forward-looking growth story for a niche industry, the latter ...

Lonsec upgrades Flinders fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... Ratings house Lonsec has upgraded the Flinders Emerging Companies Fund from 'Investment Grade' to 'Recommended'. In its research report, Lonsec noted an increased conviction in Flinders Investment Partners investment team and process. They consider the ...

Findex assigns Aussie equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... Parker said. "We're focused on concentrated quality investing with a strong bias towards detailed qualitative bottom up research. We share a strong belief in avoiding key person risk that often weighs down a fund management group." The Altair investment ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Don't you just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell ...

Cyber breaches arise internally: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Two-thirds of cyber breaches arise from employees' negligence or malicious acts, new claims data from Willis Towers Watson shows. Using its newly launched Cyber Risk Culture Survey solution, the company found 18% of cyber risks were driven by an external ...

Gen Y prefers liquid investments: KPMG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Generation Y professionals favour short-term investments with only 12% investing in products such as managed funds and ETFs. This is a key finding of KPMG's Banking on the Future 2017 report which shows Gen Y prefers liquid investments that can easily ...

FIIG expands fixed income research team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities is creating one of Australia's largest sell-side credit research teams with the appointment of two senior researchers. Joining the fixed income team is John Manning, who will take over as director - credit research ...