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Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... Australian investors. "In any given period, exchange rates can have a very large effect on dividend payments, but our research shows that over time they even out almost entirely, so investors can largely disregard them if they take a longer term approach," ...

Lazard lowers minimum investments on four funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... investors," Roberts said. "This is a sign of the understanding of the benefits and rewards of a disciplined and intensive research based approach to stock picking. "Our approach to investing is based on bottom-up research focused on identifying under-valued ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... themselves. This also relates to the wider trend of investors "doing it for themselves" via self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Research firm Lonsec recently found significant growth in the number of investments catering to direct investors during the ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January with Longitude Research. APAC investors ...

Bill Gross donates $867m to charity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... the past, Gross has made donations through a family foundation and to organisations that support health care, medical research and education.

King to relaunch Sovereign after Mercer restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... has left the business and will reestablish the alternatives consultancy firm he founded in 2000, Sovereign Investment Research. King told Financial Standard he departed Mercer following the company's acquisition of Strategic Capital Management (SCM) ...

Australia unprepared for FTAs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... unprepared for a "bonanza" arising from free trade agreements with China, Japan and South Korea, according to Finsia research. Multiple factors including rapid market growth (between 2.5% and 7% over the next few decades), the rising importance of Asian ...

Pengana partners with queen of small caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... akin to our local Pengana Emerging Companies Fund, which also seeks to identify businesses through in house fundamental research that are overlooked and mispriced." Pillemer said global small caps are currently one of the few places expected to show ...

SSgA appointed to rebuild Findex investment strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) will conduct a review of Findex's investment strategy and research approach, following the group's acquisition of Crowe Horwath. SSGA will be in charge of streamlining Findex's business structure and operating model ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... 500 rose 0.38 per cent, is helping the Australian share market, led by the big banks, Australian Stock Report head of research Chris Conway said. "Given the weighting of the financial sector, that's what's driving the little pop higher that we've seen ...