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EDHEC-Risk reveals risk control plan

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... risks by associating the level of required regulatory capital with the level of residual non-financial risk taken by the major players in the value chain. It also recommends requiring key investor information documentation to contain a description of ...

Mixed outlook for Aussie dollar

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... the face of collapsed business confidence. Many economists have cited the strength of the Australian dollar as one of the major threats to the domestic economy over the last 12 months and Gibbs is no exception. At this morning's breakfast he told delegates ...

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... how Australia negotiates this "batting change" from mining growth to one or more other areas of the economy will be 2013's major issue. Speakers were divided over how well this transition would be managed, and what effect it would have on growth figures. ...

SPAA joins UN group

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Nations Convention of Independent Financial Advisors (CIFA). Established as a not-for-profit advocate, the CIFA plays the major role in managing the Geneva-based United Nation's charter on investors' rights. SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery said ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Wall Street overnight. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,793. No major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities news, Penrice Soda Holdings is due to hold a spill meeting, while ResMed ...

2013 a turning point for world economy: Clime

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... each of the world's most anxiously watched markets have prompted a dramatic lift in investor sentiment, and could signal a major turning point for the global economy, according to Clime chief investment officer John Abernathy. While the investment expert ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... for the foreseeable future: global risk aversion, a lack of other safe haven assets and ongoing loose monetary policy in major developed markets. "The flow of money into the bond market is not being fuelled by greed, as is the case in a classic bubble ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Well, well, well...what do you know? Over the past few weeks we've been keeping an eye on that other half of the US fiscal cliff - the budget spending cuts - and the lifting, or not, of the debt ceiling. That's been sorted (well, almost) last night ...

Advisers must ask clients about SRI investing: Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
If the government is serious about wanting to make a positive difference on issues such as the environment, sustainability and ethical corporate governance then it must obligate financial planners to ask their clients about socially responsible investing ...

Fed ECB BOJ, Unlimited

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013