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Super fund mergers could risk member attrition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... Kristen Turnbull said. "However the benefits to members need to be thoughtfully communicated with a particular focus on economies of scale and scope," Turnbull added. Competitively high investment return ranked highest among factors that members consider ...

I'm with Bill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... experience a prolonged period of stagnation or deflation. Financial conditions could become volatile as high-income economies tighten monetary policy on diverging timelines. Rapid reassessment of risk could also be triggered by a spike in geopolitical ...

Platinum backs US internet stocks and Asian infrastructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... top-performing manager has also picked up new infrastructure focused investments in the largest of the emerging market economies, India and China. "The companies themselves are fine, but out-of-favour, because they are seen as dull. As you would have ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... points. Not only this, the World Bank also notes that lower oil prices would bolster government revenues in developing economies as it lessens the need for fuel subsidies. Not to mention (although the World Bank mentioned it), reduce inflation pressures ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... more to follow), its negative repercussions for junk bonds, and lenders to oil companies, and oil producers and their economies and transmit this weakness other economies and markets, etcetera, etcetera... etcetera. We're doomed! Brent and WTI oil prices ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... I paid A$1.19 (no voucher discount) when I filled up over the weekend. Major central banks boosting their respective economies are also good for Australia - so is the weakening Australian dollar. Being one of the very few select countries still rated ...

Investors blind to arbitrage opportunity in emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... specialist Marber, who is based in the US but in Australia this week to meet with institutional investors, emerging market economies present an arbitrage opportunity for investors. "Credit opportunities in Australia are almost non-existent. Credit spreads ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... - we worry about rising joblessness, rising budget deficit, rising debt, rising property prices, improving US and UK economies and the prospect of interest rate hikes there. We're losing sleep over falling stock prices, declining terms of trade, slumping ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... members' reaction: "The conflicting interests inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers can extract oil cheaply. They also -- Iraq excepted -- have a lot of ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... invaluable to a growing ACFS. The combination of her academic publications and first-hand experience dealing with Asian economies will provide an important perspective as the region's financial markets grow in importance," ACFS executive director, Professor ...