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Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... quickly when banks no longer wish to compete for that capital. "Furthermore, policy makers all over the world are doing everything in their power to create inflation, that will see to cash becoming unattractive." He added: "The biggest risk for investors ...

QE3, OMT, APP equals D-U-D?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... Investments. Often these are companies big on intellectual property and technology, but small enough that labour costs are not everything. "They want to encourage this sector," he said. One representative from Chinese private equity group Connect Pharm ...

Asset consultants still in demand

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... investment consulting in Asia Pacific. "Some years ago, we were in demand to provide generalist services, and help with everything that related to the investment program." Now, with a lot of the basics done by funds themselves, the demand for specialist ...

Tax-efficient giving advice missing: Macquarie

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... let specialist companies with the required expertise manage his clients' philanthropy needs for him. "We outsource everything," he said. "If there is a pool of money then that can be managed by a wrap. It isn't complicated. Working with specialists saves ...

Govt to pay interest on lost Super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... membership in a fund often exceeds the benefit," she said. "If someone left $200 in an ATM machine, they would drop everything and rush back to get it. Every day, Australians lose $3.8 million of superannuation."

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. Considered to be a replica of Amazon, Lazada caters for everything from consumer electronics to household goods and is ranked in the top 20,000 websites worldwide despite launching in Southeast ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... keeping Frau Merkel "lebe". These developments bring us back to my broader point that Europe's powers-that-are would do everything and anything in their power to keep the single currency area single. Next stop towards strengthening that singleness: Banking ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... back then when real events send markets rallying or dropping - the law of physics was at play. Not this time. Not when everything can turn on the mere mention of those two letters - Q and E or in Mario's case, B and B (bond buying). To illustrate: Bloomberg ...

Smarter lifecycle approach to staunch SMSF flow

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... "It's been hard because you're looking at cohorts to segment your member base, but you don't have the luxury of knowing everything else the member has in terms of other assets," added Bouch. "You're assuming that everyone is at the same point when they're ...