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ANZ to chase more China assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... backdrop and hinted at plans to expand further into the Asia Pacific region over the next five years. "Despite having endured the GFC and a high Aussie dollar, we've brought in 21% of revenue from our super regional business. A strategy focused on growth ...

ANZ posts record profits

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... with the Basel III capital adequacy rules coming into effect. "With the global economy softening, it's clear that the post-GFC lower growth business environment will be with us for the foreseeable future, as will the requirement to operate with higher ...

Super returns nudge GFC barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
After almost five years, super funds are finally in line with their pre-GFC peaks of October 2007, a preliminary report from SelectingSuper's latest super funds performance survey reveals. According to the report, workplace default fund rolling 12 month ...

Next-gen platforms cater for wealth management renaissance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... chief operating officer at financial services technology infrastructure group, Financial Simplicity, estimates that since the GFC, up to a third of platform assets in some segments have been transferred into self managed super funds (SMSF) - a shift ...

Chinese small-and-mid caps undervalued

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... Enterprise Index, valuations for smaller Chinese listed companies are at a historic low, at similar levels to those seen during the GFC. "Back in the global financial crisis, it was [the index] trading at 7.7 times price-to-earnings ratio, showing that ...

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... the start of 2012 while the German Dax index is up more than 25%. Household debt was blamed, in part, for the on-set of the GFC in 2007. Now that indebtedness has been passed onto some of the largest economies in the world, investors are understandably ...

Investors must push for PE transparency

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... long-term and illiquid assets are really achieving their expectations." "People really need to know what their exposures are, the GFC has heightened that. We have some clients who have 25% of their entire pension invested in private equity and they need ...

IOSCO recommends reforms to the $4.7tr MMF sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... money market fund sector has recommended further reforms to prevent a recurrence of the contagion crisis that fuelled the GFC in 2008. "Although money market funds (MMF) did not cause the crisis, their performance during the financial turmoil highlighted ...

Non-aligned advisers driving new platforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... being non-aligned is that even though institutional wealth groups have been steadily increasing the market grip since the GFC, this has not necessarily stifled competition as much as feared. However, he said it had forced non-aligned groups and their ...

Omega bullish on sovereign investing

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... ago, sovereign debt from major developed nations was considered about as low-risk as you could get," noted McCrum. "But post GFC, experience shows us that some of those assumptions no longer apply. The challenge for investors is how to make decisions ...