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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... major banks and big resources companies driving the market's gain. "Obviously, there's speculation that there might be an interest rate cut, especially after what the NZ Bank did yesterday," Quay Equities head of trading Tristan K'Nell said. New Zealand's ...

Work harder to fight negative press: AFA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Advisers and associations need to do more to fight negative stereotypes about financial planning, argued Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox at a recent Value Alliance event in Sydney. As an example, he noted that Houghton ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... production report. In Australia, the share market on Thursday achieved a sixth straight day of gains as expectations of an interest rate cut grow. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.7 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 5,569.5 points. The broader All ...

Asset owners throwing money away in hidden fees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
There are as many as 160 ways asset owners are likely to unnecessarily lose money to hidden costs. But the good news is they can be uncovered and eliminated. That's according to Novarca, a consultancy specialising in what it calls 'cost pattern analysis.' ...

VicSuper awards $100M absolute return mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
VicSuper has awarded a $100 million mandate to a global fixed interest manager as part of its alternatives strategy. The mandate was awarded to Payden & Rygel (P&R) absolute return strategy, which aims to generate returns of 2% above the 3 month AFMA ...

Government to blame for fall in business confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... money market last year." Despite the growing number of analysts that expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates in the coming months, Eslake predicted that "the next movement in interest rates will be upwards, but it is not going ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... Reserve's policy statement, in which it described US economic growth as "solid" but pledged a "patient" approach to raising interest rates. LONDON - Greek stocks took a hammering after the country's new anti-austerity government pressed home demands ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... overall, directly correlates with our unique and innovative Fund's sequential structure and governance, strong alignment of interest with our investors and long term investment philosophy, which address a number of limitations present in traditional ...

Gen Y saving habits reveal advice opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... challenges that are unique to their generation. Housing has arguably never been more unaffordable, even with historically low interest rates, house price growth is pitted against slowing earnings growth. They have lived through the GFC and the cost of ...

Smarter Money Investments added to BT Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... active cash strategy returned 4.1% after all fees in comparison to its average peer in the Morningstar short-term fixed-interest universe, which returned 3.2%. The volatility of its returns has been low at less than 0.65% per annum with a Sharpe Ratio ...