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APRA MySuper changes burden for industry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
The proposed level of involvement by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority in commercial arrangements between super funds and employers under the new draft MySuper Bill is unnecessary and inefficient, according to retail bodies. Submissions ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
A new global equity model from MSCI-owned Barra is factoring in frontier markets, as institutional interest again returns to the subset of emerging markets. While interest in the markets dissipated during the global financial crisis in a flight from ...

Planners double allocation to term deposits

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
Allocation to term deposits from financial planners more than doubled over 12 months to November 2011, according to wealth researcher Investment Trends. Planners invested 28% of client inflows in cash and term deposits in the 12 months to November 2011 ...

Financial services digging deep for FICAP

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP) has signed up another three platinum sponsors for its charity concert next month. ANZ, Colonial First State and RNC Global Projects have joined returning sponsors BT Financial Group and Perpetual ...

Call for new generation annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Actuaries Institute has called for tax disincentives to be removed from deferred lifetime annuity products found in overseas markets, along with the development of a new generation of annuities in its pre-budget submission to the Federal Government. ...

Don't be fooled by strong AUD

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
The strength of the Australian currency has led many to believe our economy is also resilient, but the local economy is falling well behind the Asian region, according to one senior chief economist. Clifford Bennett, chief economist at the White Crane ...

What hard landing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Hard landing? What hard landing? I told you so Virginia, what China's politburo wants, China's politburo gets. And certainly, they don't want their economy to land hard. PBOC to the rescue. Late last year, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut the reserve ...

Ibbotson secures NEO Financial Solutions mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Ibbotson Associates Australia has been appointed dedicated implemented investment consultant for NEO Financial Solutions, developing the group's advice processes and practice management. Founded by Mark Edman and Mark Woods, both Woods and Edman were ...

German FM defends Euro

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
The Euro isn't the cause of Europe's economic woes and referring to it as a currency crisis misses the point, said the German foreign minister, Dr Guido Westerwelle, in a strongly worded speech to the Brookings Institution in the US last month. "The ...

Nikkei not nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Japanese equities started 2012 on the right foot with the Nikkei-225 index up by more than 4.0% in January. It is also now 7.9% above last year's low of 8,160.01 points. Viewed in this light, Japan's stock market appears to be in the mend. However ...