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Builder launches $40 million bond issue

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... only requiring six to eight weeks from start to finish. The Impact Group senior secured notes will pay an indicative interest rate of 8.5%. Impact Group chief executive Robert Harder said the company would use the funds to retire bank debt and fund growth ...

Time running out to book places for Chief Economists Forum

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... whether it can manage to keep its currency stable is likely to be a talking point as well as how much the Fed will raise interest rates," said Eslake. "The Australian economists will talk about the transition away from the mining boom to growth led by ...

Robo-advice challenged by price expectations

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Robo-advice providers will have to contend with the widespread expectation that their services should be free. This was one of the key findings of recently-released ANZ research, based on survey of 750 ANZ customers in New Zealand. According to the ...

AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super fund will close its Australian Fixed Interest, International Fixed Interest and International Shares (Hedged) investment options on 28 January 2016. The two fixed interest ...

Vanguard tells investors to watch what they pay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... included in his financial resolutions for 2016, McNabb said investors should not overlook bond funds, even in a rising interest rate environment. "Market volatility is always with us. Many of the conditions that contributed to fragility in 2015-sluggish ...

Aussie large-cap active managers endure massive outflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... that requires a clear distinction between service and product charges," Wong said. "The sharpening focus on costs spurs interest in relatively cheap passive and strategic beta vehicles, both in listed and unlisted forms. And direct investors, including ...

Prime Super awards insurance mandate to CommInsure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
Prime Super has appointed CommInsure as its new group insurer following a competitive tender process. The partnership takes effect on 1 May 2016. "This is an exciting change to the group life insurance arrangements for Prime Super. Our goals in undertaking ...

Former Mercer consultant launches research platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... Mehrotra equates this to a fraction of the cost of a full-time junior research analyst. The platform is already receiving interest with a number of unnamed "large US and Australian pension funds" taking trial versions. "DiligenceVault means anyone can ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... continued declines in the price of crude oil and most other commodities; and, anxiety over the trajectory of the Fed's interest rate policy and its impact on the US economy and emerging markets. In a way, all these are just a continuation of the same ...

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... institutional links between super funds with equal representation boards and trade unions gives rise to conflicts of interest that may have a negative impact on consumers. "The absence of competition in the default superannuation market is to the detriment ...