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Planners prepare for retirement shock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
For all the debate on adviser fees, the future of planners might actually hinge on their soft skills and how well they serve the most influential generation of our time - the baby boomers - predicts a planning expert. Paul McKeon, founder of a business ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
The New Zealand bond market has moved in lockstep with its neighbour across the Tasman as it always had historically. There are numerous debates on why this should or should not be so. But whatever the underlying reasons behind this strong positive ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... to a paper that will be published next year in a prestigious finance journal overseas, which would likely generate new debate on how the investment community should view volatility, particularly after the global financial crisis. The group has won a ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... central banks have flooded the system with would not be taken away anytime soon - at least not until we are having this debate over whether the global financial crisis has been licked. And speaking of the US reporting season, a few good earnings report ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... century later and Keyne's paradox remains that - a paradox. Black? White? While this paradox provides an interesting area for debate among economists, equity investors are saying: "It doesn't matter who's wrong or right...Just beat it, beat it, beat ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The UK regulator's proposal to ban commissions on investment advice fuels fresh debate on the future of the local financial planning industry, with experts divided on how far the industry has come and where the real problems lie. The Financial Services ...

Health Super reviews mandate line-up

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... meet some of the overseas fund managers," he said. While Clausen didn't take any sides on the active-passive management debate currently buzzing across the super industry, he said it had certainly prompted the fund to consider the fund's overall manager ...

IFSA launches superannuation Charter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
A new Super Charter launched by the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA), akin to an investor bill of rights, looks set to redefine wealth management industry practices. The "historic charter [will] create a fairer and more competitive ...

AustralianSuper saves $4m per year

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
The $28 billion AustralianSuper could reap $4 million in savings a year following the fund's increasing shift from active to passive investment mandates. Elana Rubin, chair of the industry fund and a speaker at yesterday's Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Active managers be warned: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... active managers were "on notice" by super funds which are on the hunt for ways to cut costs. There has been increasing debate among Frontier's clients - which include heavyweights AustralianSuper, Cbus and HESTA - about active versus passive management ...