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Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Investment consultant Towers Watson has thrown its support behind smart beta approaches to investment, recommending institutional investors revisit their equity strategies to incorporate the lower cost products. In a new publication, Global equity investing ...

ASIC admits wrongdoing in Senate hearing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s top officials admitted that the regulator could have done more to prevent poor advice and malpractices in a tense five-hour Senate hearing. The hearing focused on ASIC's performance in dealing ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
As the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) debate rages on, Shadow Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bernie Ripoll looks back at its inception. Laura Millan A reports. At the beginning, the future of financial advice was in the hands of Bernie ...

Wealth management sector key to Australian growth: Deloitte

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
The wealth management sector is among the list of top five most important industries to lift Australia's growth trajectory over the next 20 years, according to new research from professional services firm Deloitte. Along with gas, agribusiness, international ...

La Trobe issues first mortgage-backed securities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... funding footprint with more investors both here and globally" the manager's chief investment officer Paul Wells said. The Class A Notes, wholly subscribed by a single investor, were structured as a single tranche rather than as two tranches as in previous ...

Investors get conditional agreement against Great Southern

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Litigation funder Bentham IMF has reached a conditional settlement against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme Great Southern. According to a release on the ASX, the terms of the settlement remain confidential to the parties and are to be the ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Ex-Wallaby captain and chief executive ofA Centric Wealth Phil Kearns tells JamesA Fernyhough that there are more similarities between rugby and financial advice than first meet the eye. For a future Wallabies captain, Phil Kearns' rugby career did ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after mixed performances on international markets. At 0904 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,053. European markets were mixed but US stocks moved higher ...

SMSFs retarding growth in Australia: Credit Suisse

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) "are retarding growth in Australia" by controlling much of the equity that could be used for new investment and demanding dividend increases instead. A Credit Suisse report called "The rise of the Selfies" notes that ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
'Tis being my final type (drivel, to some gentle readers) for the year, we'll take a look back at the 2013 that was to seek the lessons it imparted and at the same time, divine what lies ahead at the other side of the New Year. Still beaming from the ...