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Sequoia executive director departs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
Sequoia Financial Group has announced the departure of an executive director and will be seeking a suitable candidate to fill the role. Delan Pagliaccio resigned from the position, effective from 2 May 2016, in order to pursue a number of other corporate ...

Super investment pros make top 40

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... Cbus' Chatfield said. HESTA's Harman said core fixed income was troubling "given the low yields, vulnerability to rising interest rates, and managers pushing themselves out on the risk curve." Allocation to real assets is a conundrum facing ESS Super's ...

Government finds $2.9 billion from super tax

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... the next four years. After superannuation representative groups welcomed no new super taxes in 2015, there is renewed interest in the federal government's direction for 2016-17 and beyond. Industry Super Australia has welcomed several changes, including ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... there is a lot of debt in Australia. This debt is effectively the top line of a bank's P&L-the more debt, the more net interest and fee income," said the Australian equity specialist. "Eventually something will go wrong. Economies don't grow forever." ...

Westpac net profit up 3pc

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... contributed to a softer performance in other divisions. In particular, Westpac Institutional Bank was affected by lower net interest margins and significantly higher impairment charted related principally to four large exposures which added $252 million ...

Australians letting their retirement down: report

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Australians are again showing a wide-held belief they won't be able to afford their dream retirement, nor do they understand how to best fund their retirement. Suncorp's Attitudes to Superannuation report, released today, reveals more 55% of Australians ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... them... and I can't see this state of affairs reversing until the Fed - or expectations of the Fed - reverses its lowered interest rate trajectory. It might be a long wait given recent eco stats out of America. The advanced estimate of US first quarter ...

Instos turn to smart beta in low-return world: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... objective and factor-based investment approaches, such as smart beta, to meet their investment goals given the global low interest rate environment. This is one of the findings of State Street Global Advisors' Building Bridges report, based on a ...

Associations support adviser standards amendments

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... about ASIC fining or banning these companies or individuals and they essentially say someone was not acting in the best interest for their clients. People have got to understand what is in the best interest for the client. If leadership are asking for ...

AMP Capital partners with BetaShares for managed ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
AMP Capital has announced a partnership with BetaShares to launch a series of exchange-traded managed funds on the ASX. The first three will be the AMP Capital Dynamic Markets Fund, the AMP Capital Global Property Securities Fund and the AMP Capital ...