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Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... Open Market Committee (FOMC) must be giving each other high fives (and down lows) at their success. In spite of the daily ups and downs, it appears to they've been able to wean Wall Street off of QE successfully. Since the Fed's announcement of the final ...

Next super revolution must tackle retirement: Vilgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
The next revolution in superannuation must involve building a reliable retirement system that tackles market risk and longevity risk, according to QSuper chief executive Rosemary Vilgan. Speaking at the opening session at the Association of Superannuation ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 closed 0.2% and ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
AFA chief executive Brad Fox raised concerns over the methodology of Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) report on life insurance advice that was released last week. He told the media that there were questions over the methology ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... have noticed the verbs I used to prefix the numerical percentages --- yes, they're the superlative versions. Yes, Virginia, ups and downs in the order of 2.0% (give or take) have become big news these days. Never mind that equity markets are reacting ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Nikko Asset Management has increased its overweight in global equities in light of a positive macroeconomic environment and accommodative US monetary policy. The global investment committee of the Tokyo-based asset manager decided to raise its overweight ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... people spending so they can look after their mortgage... give everyone $1 million." There'll be no problems with regard to take-ups and for sure, most of "everyone" would spend it.

BetaShares launches US equity ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
BetaShares has launched a new US equity income focused exchange traded fund (ETF). The BetaShares S&P 500 Yield Maximiser Fund (managed fund) will trade under the ASX code UMAX and aims to provide investors with exposure to S&P 500 companies, while ...

FUM breaks thru $2tr

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
State Street Global Advisors has cemented its position as Australian biggest investment manager while Altair, Quantum, NovaPort and Naos are the fastest growing. The results are contained in Rainmaker's just released 'Roundup' report that reveals Australia's ...