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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... 3,578.30, its highest level since September 2000. Bernanke, speaking in Boston late Wednesday afternoon, promised to keep interest rates low due to the weak economy, suggesting a slower time-frame to tapering the Fed's aggressive bond-buying program. ...

SMSFs urged to consider transparent alternatives to managed funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... their behalf," Xpress Super's chief executive Olivia Long said. Long said that Xpress Super users are showing increasing interest in equities, and SMAs give SMSF investors access to professional management of their direct equity portfolios. For SMSF ...

Former Deutsche AM CEO joins Brookvine

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
Former chief executive of Deutsche Asset Management Stephen O'Brien has been made executive director at advisory and marketing firm Brookvine. O'Brien was at Deutsche for five years. Before that he worked at Schroders and at Tyndall Investment Management. ...

Coalition confirms plans for FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... simplification and streamlining of additional annual fee disclosure statement requirements and an improvement of the best interest duty. The Coalition also wants to provide certainty around the provision and availability of scaled advice and to refine ...

Great rotation is all in the mind: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... the last 12 months, coupled with volatility in bonds markets and declining yields, had led many to assume that investor interest in bond funds is declining, but we don't believe this to be true," Peter Dorrian, head of global wealth management at PIMCO ...

Macquarie Group tops global alternative investment table

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... commodities (4% and $118bn). "Global investors continue their search for yield and accordingly maintain their strong interest in real estate. We also see increasing interest in infrastructure as an asset class and some investors view listed infrastructure ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... However, the bestest news would have to be ECB President Super Mario's repetition of his commitment to lower for longer interest rates. "The exit from our monetary policy stance being accommodative is distant." Perhaps not so for the Fed. Not with the ...

Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... six weeks have served as a good lesson that equities can face very hard falls. While fixed income doesn't do well when interest rates are rising, it's far from the biggest risk on a whole-of-portfolio basis." GSAM proposes investors with less appetite ...

Fidelity set to expand Australian presence

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... clients." "Over the long term we believe we have opportunities to be flexible about how to service our Australian clients. If interest rates continue to fall here then our record for helping our European clients generate income without undue risk should ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... US jobs data and a day after surging on clear signs that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England would keep interest rates low for some time. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading companies was down 0.72 per cent to 6375.52 points, while ...