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Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... in oil prices over recent months remains the dominant factor driving current headline inflation, the potential for second-round effects on wage and price-setting has increased and could adversely affect medium-term price developments." This is the same ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Diversified Infrastructure Fund (EDIF) after successfully achieving its fundraising objective of $2.9billion. The fifth and final round of fundraising saw the fund draw in $1.1billion over a six month period. Philippe Taillardat, partner, direct infrastructure ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... risk sharing." In the ECB's words, the decision was taken "to counter" deflation dynamics -- and "the potential for second-round effects on wage and price-setting" - the still sizeable "economic slack" and subdued "money and credit developments". Barring ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... legislation would approved, but its bid to pass changes to FoFA through regulation (instead of legislation) brought yet another round of controversy and debate. The fact that one of the new provisions left the door open to reintroducing commissions in ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... as this year's recipient of the annual Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Award, the audience broke into a long and generous round of applause. The man who was about to walk to the podium to receive his award is admired by his peers: he has proven his mettle ...

Small tech providers tempt aligned advisers to defect

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
Aligned advisers are finding large platforms slow to react to the changing environment, with some starting to "defect" and to small independent providers, AdviceInnovation members said. "People are beginning to defect. A couple years ago there wasn't ...

Further raise pension age, says Future Leaders winner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... ninth year - they were put on the spot to actually pitch their thinking to the judging panel. Stephen well deserves his 'round-the-world' ticket prize to meet up with Deloitte global leaders and discover more about how pensions are managed in other parts ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The active versus passive debate is one that has raged for decades but with the latest figures showing a steady increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems ...

Liam Shorte named FS Smileys Scholar of the Year

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
Verante Financial Planning director Liam Shorte has won this year's Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence (SMILEYS) Scholarship. The FS Smileys Scholarship, proudly supported by Financial Standard's scholarship partner ...