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Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The cartel that controls 40% of oil production - the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - met and concluded their 166th meeting in Vienna, Australia last night. The conclusion: "...in the interest of restoring market equilibrium, the ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
The threat of cyber-attacks is "a fact of life" and there is a need to establish an international methodology to measure the businesses' vulnerability to the risk, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said. ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the parliamentary agreement between the Coalition and Labor to fix the unintended consequences of scrapping grandfathering from the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association ...

Don't rule out another rate cut: AllianceBernstein

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank is increasingly likely to defy consensus and cut the official cash rate in 2015, according to global asset manager AllianceBernstein. Consensus expectations of a 2015 rate rise are based on the assumption that a downturn in resources ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after a surprise cut to interest rates in China boosted mining stocks. The People's Bank of China has unexpectedly cut benchmark interest rates for the first time in more than two years to boost sagging ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
The Australian government yesterday released its first Gender Equality Scorecard and while the results are discouraging, a separate international report released by Credit Suisse shows that investors make more money investing in women-lead enterprises. ...

Independent dealer groups eye Genesys practices

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
Centrepoint Alliance has opened its doors to Genesys advisers after the closure of the dealership and asked them to choose a dealer group aligned with their values. "The impending closure of the Genesys dealer group has shone the spotlight once again ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
Global investment manager Standard Life Investments has bolstered its global strategy team with the appointment of two executives. Chris Faulkner-MacDonagh joins as market strategist and Alex Wolf has been appointed as emerging markets economist. Both ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after US stocks barrelled to fresh records following China's surprise interest-rate cut. At 0751 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 52 points at 5,360. The People's Bank ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The active versus passive debate is one that has raged for decades but with the latest figures showing a steady increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems ...