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Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
The dramatic lift in confidence arising from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures has created opportunities for investment to flow between Australia and Japan in both directions, according to Nikko Asset Management chairman ...

Direct insurance not a competitor of retail: Zurich

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Direct insurance is offering a different product than advised insurance and is not competing directly for its market share, according to Zurich Life head of Marketing Richard Dunkerley. "The statement that direct insurance is cheaper than retail insurance ...

Planning software not ready for FoFA opt-in hurdle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
More than a third of financial advisers say they do not yet have software which they believe can adequately manage their opt-in requirements, according to a recently published Midwinter Financial Services survey. For its FoFA Advice Impact Survey, Midwinter ...

Super funds need low volatility shares for pension portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Superannuation members in the post-retirement phase should have exposure to lower volatility, income paying stocks, according to Investors Mutual investment director Anton Tagliaferro. Traditional investment theory dictates that as investors grow older ...

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
More often than not, it's good to know that one is in good company. I bet not a few of you gentle readers believed more the "Fed would unwind soon" headlines than this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". Yeah, the equity markets' performance ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
The Australian share market is set for a small fall when it opens for the week. Wall Street provided a mixed lead on Friday night, with the main indices only marginally changed heading into a three-day weekend. At 0758 AEST on Monday, the June share ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Australian shares are a little weaker as the market follows Wall street into negative territory. Still, IG market strategist Chris Weston said, the futures market had been expecting an even worse session in the US, where the broad-based S&P 500 finished ...

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Profits for Japanese companies are set to get higher despite the country already being in a bull market said Kerr Neilson, chief executive and founder of Platinum Asset Management. In an interview with Financial Standard, Neilson said the fund manager ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...