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IFM has 'concerns' over infra prices

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
IFM Investors' head of European infrastructure debt David Cooper has stopped short of saying there is an infrastructure bubble, but raised 'concerns' about the prices institutional investors are paying for infrastructure. When asked to comment on whether ...

Questions raised about ANZ and Timbercorp

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
The Senate Economics Committee inquiry into forestry managed investment schemes heard victims of Timbercorp point to the failed scheme's relationship with ANZ Banking Group. "The evidence presented at the first hearing of the Senate inquiry in forestry ...

Embrace rising retirement age, says futurist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... something to embrace. "When you're using your head, not your body, to earn the money, the only way to lose your brains is to stop using them," he said. "Very few people know that over the last 250 years either here or in America, the average person has ...

ASFA launches blueprint for post-retirement system

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... "We know that the ageing population is going to be a game changer when it comes to retirement incomes policy. It's time we stop pointing at the problem, and start developing the solutions required to deliver a better system for Australia's retirees. ...

Next super revolution must tackle retirement: Vilgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
The next revolution in superannuation must involve building a reliable retirement system that tackles market risk and longevity risk, according to QSuper chief executive Rosemary Vilgan. Speaking at the opening session at the Association of Superannuation ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
It's that time of the year again folks, the first Tuesday of November, when the "Race that Stops the Nation' - the Melbourne Cup - meets with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision. I have lived in Australia (and Melbourne, at ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
"You say stop and I say go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello" -- The Beatles Just as the Fed concluded QE3, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) served up the biggest trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even ...

Asteron ends business relations with 134 rogue advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... advice. "We should be able to control our future. We should be able to control our industry. Unless we all take ownership and stop treating it as rhetoric, we will not win," he said. While Asteron has not reported these advisers to the Australian Securities ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
It's a wrap! QE is. Looking at Wall Street's performance overnight - the Dow and the S&P 500 up more than 1.0%, the Nasdaq up nearly 2.0% (rounded) and the Russell 2000 up nearly 3.0% (rounded) - the men and women at the Fed must be patting each other's ...

FEATURE: Is it time to change the conversation about ETFs?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
With the range of ETFs ever increasing, is it time we stopped thinking of them as passive, 'set-and-forget' instruments, and started viewing them instead as a means of actively managing asset allocation? James Fernyhough and Mark Smith report. In Australia ...