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JPM navigates super funds towards maritime income strategy

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... old industry, maritime is a new and exciting asset class for institutional investors. With a search for income in a low interest rate environment as our starting point, we have examined how long-term maritime charters are capable of generating better ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... overemphasized, because what matters for financial conditions and the broader economy is the entire expected path of short-term interest rates and not the precise timing of the first rate increase". "Let me first be clear that the FOMC does not intend ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... and chemical and biological weapons" by MSCI), corporate board quality, corruption and accounting practices. Investors' interest in (and motivations for considering) ESG criteria went beyond ethical concerns: 90% of participants felt ESG criteria had ...

AFA can't give Trowbridge report "complete support"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
The Trowbridge report's recommendations will likely increase the cost of life insurance for Australians, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) cautioned. Specifically, AFA chief executive Brad Fox noted that because the Initial Advice Payment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... straight month might also have the market thinking more stimulus is likely, he said. "These QEs, free-flowing cash, low interest rates are really putting a rocket under this market... who knows where it all ends and people are trying to ride it as long ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... discussion about starting to raise rates". Cleveland Fed pres Loretta Mester in Paris: "It would be appropriate to raise interest rates sometime this year... We are not going to necessarily move in June but it gives us June as a viable option." Tuesday ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... retirement plan providers to educate the American public about their savings, including on issues such as compounding interest, finding appropriate investments, monitoring investment portfolios and making changes to portfolios when appropriate".

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... However, other Asian equity markets have been mixed after a healthy batch of US data revived the prospect of an early interest rate hike. Shanghai, which surged to a near seven-year high over the past 10 sessions, fell 0.83 per cent, or 30.68 points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... data or corporate news out this week or incentives to adjust portfolios ahead of next week's Reserve Bank meeting on interest rates, said Quay Equities head of trading Tristan K'nell. "That big push towards 6000 is probably going to be unlikely this ...

Vertically-integrated advice model can work

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... yourself: when you are providing financial advice, are you a service provider, and if so what is the best advice in the interest of the client, or are you a product salesperson?" "There's still work to be done in that space. A lot of the reforms have ...