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Mercer expands with global chief investment role

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... of investment strategies had lead to the creation of the role. "We want to take our investment management business to the next stage, it's the natural evolution. We want to ensure that we make the most out of our investment capital in the firm and bring ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... dollar? Not on a single dated inflation number. And tell me, how 'stoopid' is extrapolating what happened last quarter to the next and beyond? Cause that seems to be what financial markets are doing - if CPI prints high today, it'll be even higher next ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... calls for raising the debt limit by $US1 trillion ($A925 billion). The plan would require the debt issue to be voted on again next year, something President Barack Obama does not want. The stalemate over raising the US's borrowing limit has rattled investors. ...

Planners remain wary of switching cash to equities

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... client portfolios. Zurich spoke to 300 advisers nationwide with 59% "indicating a potential swing back into equities" in the next 6-12 months with 78% of those considering a rebalancing in favour of growth assets. Australian shares would be the most ...

UK should raise state pension age to 70: PwC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... said PwC. "Most other high-income countries face even larger pressures on public spending from an ageing population over the next four decades. But the longer action is delayed, the more severe it will need to be." The UK is facing similar demographic ...

Real estate may cause super tax headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... allowed to continue to the estate until death benefits begin to be paid, he said. Cavendish will discuss the matter in the next round of free adviser technical seminars along with pension matters and the new collectables legislation, it said in a release. ...

Perpetual downgraded as FUM redistributed

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Skamvougeras, portfolio manager of Perpetual's long/short Australian-equities fund. S&P accepted that Sevior may return in January next year, but as it was uncertain it had to downgrade the fund. "Although we consider Mr. Skamvougeras to be a very capable ...

Advisers expect profits to climb 10pc despite FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Advisers expect profits to climb by 10% in the next financial year with optimism within the industry at record high levels, despite talk of regulatory doom and gloom plaguing its future. The Macquarie Practice Consulting's 2011 Financial Planning Practices ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... wealth management industry in Australia and the Asia Pacific is set to outpace the rest of the world in IT investment over the next four years as the need for enhanced internet services and compliance technology fuels spending. According to technology ...

ASIC jobs cut as responsibilities rise

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... of those staff took voluntary redundancies while 16 were forced. Medcraft said further redundancies were expected over the next three years, depending on the outcome of the ASIC Funding Review being conducted with Treasury and the Department of Finance ...