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KPMG hires heavy in financial services

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
KPMG Australia's advisory division is positioning itself for a year where large corporates are expected to have more appetite for mergers and acquisitions. This is reflected in the company's recent intake of 51 new partners and executive directors ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Industry Super Australia has appointed a specialist retirement policy adviser. Phil Gallagher is a statistician and policy modeller specialising in retirement incomes and population ageing. He has overseen quantitative analysis of Commonwealth social ...

AustralianSuper, Brookfield in second US deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Plans to have about 10% of AustralianSuper's fund assets allocated to property were bolstered by a second joint partnership with Brookfield Property Partners recently. The most recent partnership saw Brookfield sell AustralianSuper a 49% stake in eight ...

Australians ill prepared for financial future

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Australians are potentially being complacent about their finances with little or no plans in place now and for the future, according to the latest survey data from CUA. More than half of the 1,061 Australians surveyed said they had no financial plans ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
When the global financial crisis broke, people dubbed them the PIIGS. Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most ...

FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Among the 81 findings in the Australian Infrastructure Audit Report released in April, was a statement that said over recent years, rates of public and private investment in infrastructure have been higher than the long-term average. Yet the audit goes ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Animal spirits are playing a significant role in expenditure decisions by Australian firms even though rates of return and other influences may offer a more unbiased company position. This is one the key findings among research from the Reserve Bank ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Investors are wrongly convincing themselves there is still value in an overpriced equity market, a top performing fund manager says. Ben Leyland, senior fund manager at BT Investment Management-owned investment house J O Hambro and manager of the London-based ...

Milliman seeing shift in bond portfolios

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Holding high quality bonds in an attempt to generate income and offset volatility and drawdowns in the stock market was an approach that served investors well leading up to the financial crisis. Low yields and interest rates mean bonds now offer less ...

The unborn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Midnight's been kicked back. Last night was supposed to be the night when the Grexit clock struck 12 - the make or break - and then there's this from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ): "Special summit of eurozone leaders called for Monday". Trust the masters ...