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SDI products drive retail FUM growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... of retail assets account for 65% of retail segment growth. Rainmaker said the results confirm that the rise of SDI products isn't damaging platform business directly but the growth outlook for traditional retail managed funds is dire. Despite these metrics ...

Van Eck goes local on EM fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... or may already be stabilising or even recovering." Fine, who also manages Van Eck's unconstrained EM bond strategy, said he isn't looking for good countries and instead wants cheap ones. "Even though overall EM local doesn't pay high real interest rates ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... the best explanation I read this morning because it also put a smile on my face - it was from Bloomberg, "If economic data isn't negative, but also not really positive, the market loves it," said Timothy Ghriskey, the chief investment officer at Solaris ...

Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... mind too, the kingdom of Angela Merkel - Forbes' most powerful woman on the planet - and Greece's biggest creditor said it isn't so. As the Wall Street Journal reports: ""...we haven't gotten much further in substance in the negotiations between the ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... where good risk is uninsurable at all or even that it's particularly difficult to get." But for instances where PI insurance isn't enough to compensate aggrieved consumers, Kahler argued that the proposed industry-funded scheme "makes a lot of sense" ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... action bumping our currency, commodity prices - in particular, iron ore and crude oil -- also appear to be turning (though this isn't a bad thing). Iron ore prices continued to firm overnight, rising to US$59.88 per tonne from US$57.81 the previous day ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... have been distorted by last year's 6.5% surge in industrial output ahead of April's sales tax hike, the monthly comparison isn't encouraging. Industrial production dropped by 3.1% on the month, reversing most of January's 3.7% increase. On consumption ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... members to look up what they're actually paying, and we think it is quite mischievous to talk in terms of averages when there isn't actually an average."

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... and ports expected to generate trade amounting to around US$2.5 trillion. Though according to the Wall Street Journal, "It isn't all about roads, rails and ports. The plan calls for the construction of oil and natural-gas pipelines. Fiber-optic networks ...

MetLife to roll out rehab program for disability claimants

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... "As a life insurer, MetLife has extensive experience managing disability claims - we have learned what is effective and what isn't, and we know that the ability to work plays a huge role in restoring the self-worth of people," MetLife chief operating ...