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Advisers turn budget into opportunity to engage

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Tech savvy financial planners have turned fears around the 2014/15 federal budget cuts into an opportunity to highlight the value of advice and engage with their clients on social media. The government's warnings before the release of the 2014 budget ...

Hunter Hall appoints head of retail sales

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Ethical fund manager Hunter Hall Investment Management (Hunter Hall) has appointed Barbara Glover as head of retail sales and marketing. Glover has held positions with AXA, AMP Capital, ING Direct and NAB Wealth. Most recently she was distribution executive ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is trading slightly lower despite a positive start as investors react cautiously to US job figures and await more economic news. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said local investors had shown a weak reaction ...

netwealth appoints head of investment and research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
netwealth has appointed Challenger national key account manager to the role of head of investment management and research The company made the announcement that Paul O'Connor would take up the position on May 19 during its yearly update yesterday. O'Connor ...

Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Investment consultant Towers Watson has thrown its support behind smart beta approaches to investment, recommending institutional investors revisit their equity strategies to incorporate the lower cost products. In a new publication, Global equity investing ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Three consecutive down days on the Street have turned the S&P 500 index's 2.3% gain for the year to a 0.2% loss; the Dow's flat (0.02%) performance into a 2.0% loss; and the Nasdaq's positive 2.4% into negative 2.3%. Three down days and suddenly allusions ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
It's almost over - the first one-fourth of 2014, that is, and what have equity markets got to show for it? They retreated, they bounced back and after (nearly) three months... they did almost zilch. As at yesterday's closing, the All Ordinaries index ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
What's she done now? All this commotion... and just at her first ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Sanctions? You call that sanctions? Putin must be LOL-in' after hearing the news that Europe has imposed "sanctions" by freezing the assets of 21 Russian and Crimean officials and imposing travel bans on them. The US imposed the same "sanctions" on ...