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A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... bailout bonds for loans". This would give the Australian dollar an extra boost. So will the RBA if it decides not to cut interest rates again next Tuesday. The hope is that at the current A$ exchange rate, financial markets have already pencilled in ...

Retirees 'much worse' off: RBA

JASON CADDEN FOR AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Life is not going to get easier for self-funded retirees as record low interest rates force them to take on riskier investments, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says. Central banks around the world have lowered their interest rates to stimulate ...

MTAA launches transition to retirement investment option

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... exposure to growth assets. The Income Focussed Option includes a 40% allocation to equities, 22.5% invested in fixed interest via global credit and 15% in cash. It also invests in other income yielding assets such as infrastructure, property and alternative ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... distribution marketing, Matt Schiffman, said Australian investors are parochial relative to their international counterparts. "Interest in equities had gone up dramatically. Global interest in equities was up 51%, indicating an increased interest in ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the clock is ticking for the industry to implement the recommendations in the Trowbridge report. Alex Burke investigates what that might mean for risk advice. "It is up to the industry now to restore public confidence ...

No inflation but no growth either: Janus Capital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... be less growth somewhere else." Chang, who chairs Janus Capital's investment committee, explained that negative real interest rates in Denmark, Switzerland and Germany are a clear sign that we live in unusual times and investors need to rethink their ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The latest fixed income market outlook from BlackRock's Rick Rieder poses the interesting question of whether there are some assets in a portfolio which are there for the long term and others which have a place for a short time, depending on opportunities ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... a change in policy settings. The BOJ board would decide to keep settings as they did at the 7-8 April gabfest -- key interest rate at 0-0.1% and increase the monetary base "at an annual pace of about 80 trillion yen". Gauging by the recent performance ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... to get the show going." Miller predicts Australia's unemployment rate will reach 7% by December and the RBA will cut interest rates by 50 basis points. BlackRock says economic growth and monetary policy are diverging globally and the US Federal Reserve ...

Managed Account Holdings to invest in advisory firms

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... proposal to wholly owned subsidiary Planner Holdings Limited (PHL). The current proposal suggests PHL will hold up to a 25% interest in the advisory firms as an initial investment. It is intended the advisory firms will use the funds from the investment ...