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Merger creates active management behemoth

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... "reinforces both Standard Life's and Aberdeen's long-standing commitment to active management, underpinned by fundamental research, with both global reach and local depth of resources." The scale provided by the merger would also "transform the combined ...

Implemented Portfolios launches bespoke IMA offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
Implemented Portfolios created a white label individually managed account solution for clients of a $350 million Hobart-based financial planning firm. The managed accounts provider has designed a bespoke solution for integrated accounting and self-licensed ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
Sure there were a few down days but overall, the US equity market - like the energizer bunny - keeps on going and going... up. Wall Street's major equity market indices closed at record highs - the Dow at 21,115.55 points; the S&P 500 at 2395.96 points ...

2017 to usher in stock-picker renaissance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
Janus Capital head of research Carmel Wellso believes the art of stock-picking is coming back in vogue as investors turn away from yield in pursuit of growth. Speaking to Financial Standard in Sydney, Wellso said that bottom-up active management had ...

Super to drive employment in 2017

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... technological change and how human resource departments should deal with this was identified as another major challenge. Further research from SUPER Recruiters suggests listed infrastructure is the asset class best suited to investment in today's volatile ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The just-released "OECD Economic Surveys, Australia" provided a pretty growth picture of the domestic economy, forecasting GDP growth of 2.6% this year and 3.1% in 2018 - one that would lower the current jobless rate from 5.7% (January 2017) to 5.5% ...

Forward thinking must underpin advice: Vanguard

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... uncertainty and weaker returns. "At Vanguard we focus on the drivers of long term phenomenon in the global economy and in our research over the last decade - we have found that there are three forces which matter, in fact trump all others; changes in ...

Private equity sector resilient

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Private equity remains resilient despite experiencing a global economic rollercoaster in 2016, according to new a report from Bain and Company. Fundraising and exit activity remain strong, while returns outperformed public markets over the short and ...

Super doesn't need tender system: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... to reject the consideration of adopting a Chilean-style tender process for default super in Australia. ASFA's latest research paper says adopting the Chilean system would be a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist and would have adverse effects ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Along with household consumption, exports were the biggest contributor - both adding 0.5 percentage point -- to Australia's faster-than-expected 1.1% expansion in the fourth quarter of last year (expectations were for a 0.7% gain), that took the annual ...