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Admin issues delay AMP NZ equities mandate

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
AMP Capital's $670 million mandate to New Zealand boutique fund manager Salt Funds Management has been delayed because of administration issues. The mandate was announced on March 25 and was due to start on April 1, but AMP confirmed that the start ...

Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Industry Fund Services (IFS) and dealer group Infocus Wealth Management will provide full financial advice services to First Super members. Under the arrangement, Infocus' financial advisers based in Adelaide will travel to locations around South Australia ...

Even simple funds pose risks: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Even simple investment funds, including long only mutual funds, can pose financial stability risks, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The international body's recent update to its Global Financial Stability Report offered five policy messages ...

Global property securities growth to continue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Most investment managers predict the global property securities sector will continue delivering strong returns throughout 2015, according to the Lonsec 2014/15 Global Property Securities Sector Review. The Lonsec research, which examined 23 global property ...

Fintechs issued AFSL warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Some financial technology (fintech) businesses may be unwittingly providing financial services without an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) or Australian Credit Licence (ACL), putting themselves in breach of the law and opening themselves ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Maybe June. Perhaps one of the 'ber' months of 2015. Could be early 2016 or later that year. Or... until the twelfth of never? This, as much, is what the much-awaited minutes of the 17-18 March FOMC meeting told us. That Yellen & Co, themselves, aren't ...

ASIC to investigate AUD spike

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
ASIC is investigating a suspicious spike in the Australian dollar that occurred seconds before the RBA announced it was keeping cash rates on hold at 2.25%. The Australian dollar rose to 76.07 US cents (from 75.97) just prior to the RBA's announcement ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Expectations of a Reserve Bank interest rate cut have given the share market a post-Easter boost, with virtually all sectors making gains. Banking and dividend-paying stocks are the main beneficiaries ahead of the central bank's April meeting on Tuesday ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Future Fund managing director David Neal has expressed concern at the lack of safe, liquid investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment ...