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Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... visit is why NSW premier Kristina Keneally dismissed the local Oprah critics as being out of touch. "There is always a debate, and I think we saw it as well with the FIFA video, about how we understand ourselves and how we present ourselves to the world," ...

Pay performance fees only, says $220b fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
While local funds and asset consultants continue to debate investment fee structures, one of the world's most influential pension funds is insisting that nearly all fees be incentive based - and other remuneration structures discarded. The board of ...

Aberdeen mounts case for active fixed income investing

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
While the active versus passive debate usually centers around stocks, one of the country's largest fixed interest managers is keen to have the same argument around bonds. In a new paper, Abedeen's head of Australian Fixed Income, Victor Rodriguez, argues ...

SG at 12pc will help Reserve manage inflation: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Former prime minister Paul Keating entered the debate over increasing SG to 12 per cent, arguing that it will help the Reserve Bank manage aggregate demand without raising interest rates. Keating, speaking on ABC television's Lateline program last night ...

RMBS under the spotlight

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... change from today". Whether investors will pile back into the RMBS market in the future to pre-GFC levels, remains up for debate. In June, Aberdeen Asset Management flagged that it was tilting its local fixed income portfolios towards Australian RMBS ...

US considers retirement reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... raising the retirement age and commencing a serious discussion around increasing retirement savings. It echoes the kind of debate that took place in Australia prior to establishment of the compulsory superannuation scheme in the early '90s. And if Australia's ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While the Financial Planning Association (FPA) was embracing change and moving forward with a new strategic direction at its annual conference last week, it was still keen to argue the case for planners in some of the industry's most sensitive debates. ...

Frontier and JANA join forces to address fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... these principles will spark some different views and we are open to further input from all sides of the industry. The fee debate is an important one and it's critical that the industry actively participates in the debate to ensure it's well informed," ...

Opt in rules not up for debate

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... that the consultation underway with the industry over "opt in" was only around implementation. "Is opt in still up for debate? I would say no. I would say that as an industry it's more about looking at how to implement this policy in a way that is as ...

More voice needed in policy debate: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... he said at an ASFA conference last week. "For me, there's two elements what that means for the industry's role in policy debate - one is that [we] increase in any way we can, public policy contributions on climate change, gender representation, some ...