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Super available on the Apple watch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... response messaging, a massive development task for the software provider. "This latest release invested over 20,000 hours of research and development and nearly 400 enhancements for the end user experience. Over half of the enhancements were initiated ...

Companies failing to meet ATO benchmark

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... tax matters of any sort under a framework which had been set by the board. KPMG tax partner, David Drummond, said the research showed most companies have much work to do in various areas: IT controls; data integrity internal control frameworks and clarity ...

Passive strategies benefit active managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... granular. There's always something changing somewhere, we just need to find it," Zverev said. The manager's 55 analysts research about 2,000 individual stocks and go to 3,000 company meetings each year. SLI's Global Equity Unconstrained Fund has delivered ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... return sooner rather than later," QIC Global Liquid Strategies (GLS) managing director Susan Buckley said. To director of research strategies Katrina King, "rising inflation should not be a source of alarm - we are looking at moderate levels that we ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Let's talk about managed accounts

... accounts is due to "lack of client interest". Yet an adviser focus group, pulled from the same sample of respondents for the research, rejected this headline result. They suggested the true problem lies in the "general lack of adviser understanding of ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... Fed lifts and when it lifts. Will it? Can it? Not if you ask the Federal Reserve of Bank of New York. It published a research piece last week titled, "The Effect of the Strong Dollar on U.S. Growth" You can read the entire blog here: http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/07/the-effect-of-the-strong-dollar-on-us-growth.html. ...

Allocated pensions reach $1.4bn at Vision Super

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... managing more than $1.44 billion in post-retirement assets for its members. Vision Super chief executive, Stephen Rowe, said research showed "a lot of people take a lump sum because the other options are too confusing, but then they put it in a bank ...

HESTA manager to study women in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... people who enjoy unbroken careers, affecting many working women, and prompting an industry representative to conduct research on the issue. HESTA general manager business development, Mary Delahunty, was recently awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study ...

AMP expands US credit research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
AMP Capital has appointed four people to its Chicago-based credit research team in a bid to increase its understanding of US high yield markets. Alexander Shire will join the team on 20 July 2015 as senior portfolio manager. He has 15 years of research ...

Towers Watson hires senior consultant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... Miller said. "He is acknowledged as one of Australia's leading strategic thinkers on alternative assets and has published research on a range of issues, including currency management, global macro investing, direct investing by asset owners, hedge funds ...