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FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The US Federal Reserve's decision to postpone the rate rise is keeping the world on hold. With volatility set to increase ahead of the rate hike, Laura Millan looks at the global investment opportunities. Just when everyone thought it would happen ...

ASFA supports SGC bill with increased ATO resources

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... breaches of SG obligations and to pursue required payments by employers." "The passing of this legislation should not be a signal to employers that the obligation to make SG payments has in some way diminished," ASFA chief policy officer Glen McCrea ...

Morningstar nabs senior equity analyst from J.P. Morgan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Research house Morningstar has appointed a director of equity research to its Australian and New Zealand business. Carolyn Holmes joins the company from J.P. Morgan where she was most recently an executive director and senior equity analyst. Before ...

New IAG boss signals digital disruption focus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
IAG has set out to embrace digital disruption in naming the person to replace the retiring Mike Wilkins as managing director and chief executive. Peter Harmer will take over the role on 16 November 2015, though Wilkins, who led the business for seven ...

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 ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... mixed blessing. "On the one hand it would have been better to have seen the Fed able to raise interest rates as it would signal greater confidence in global growth and ongoing downwards pressure on the value of the $A. As it is there is a risk that an ...

Hostplus CEO joins ACSI board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Hostplus chief executive David Elia was recently appointed as a director on the board of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson confirmed the appointment and said the council was pleased to have ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... and August and core inflation's unchanged at 1.0% in August from the previous month. The bottomline: The ECB sent a clear signal of its commitment to do "whatever it takes" to get growth and inflation going. The hope is that this would be sufficient ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Australia's most handsomely paid chief executives received eight figure salaries in 2014, the latest research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) revealed. The ACSI 'CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies' report A looked at the earnings ...