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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite strong gains on Wall Street after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen was dovish about the US economy's recovery. At 0855 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up four points ...

Industry heralds government capital recycling plan

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
An agreement between the federal and state governments to incentivise asset sales which have the potential to boost the economy has been welcomed by the superannuation industry. The federal government wants to encourage states to sell businesses and ...

Less than 15% meet ASFA standard of retirement savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Less than 15% of Australians aged 40 to 64 meet the standard set by Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) for retirement savings, according to a survey by Towers Watson and the University of Melbourne. The research has determined that ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

Forget shocks and stay the course: PM Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
Fund manager PM Capital has urged investors not to over-react to geo-political or environmental disruption and stay the course with their long-term investment strategy. Kevin Bertoli, portfolio manager of PM Capital's Emerging Asia Fund, said that concerns ...

FoFA uncertainty presents good buying opportunity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
The uncertainty over the regulation of financial advice over recent years has presented small cap investors with a good buying opportunity, according to NovaPort Capital portfolio manager Sinclair Currie. After weeks of continued debate over the Future ...

Australian investors optimistic of hitting financial goals

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
An 'overwhelming majority' of Australian investors are optimistic about reaching their financial goals, according to the Franklin Templeton Global Investor Sentiment Survey conducted earlier this year. Australian investors expect their average annual ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
It's almost over - the first one-fourth of 2014, that is, and what have equity markets got to show for it? They retreated, they bounced back and after (nearly) three months... they did almost zilch. As at yesterday's closing, the All Ordinaries index ...

JANA absorbs MLC IM in NAB restructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
MLC Investment Management will be absorbed by JANA in a shake-up designed to create a larger and more powerful investment research, advisory and portfolio management business, NAB has announced. The bank said the combined business will better utilise ...

Low volatility investing exploits low risk anomaly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The fallacy that taking high investment risks by its nature leads to high returns leads to too many investors taking unnecessary risks, said a major European investment manager. Frank Wirds, client portfolio manager at the Netherlands-based investment ...