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Henderson to launch Australian global equity income fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
Citing an increased demand for yield locally, Henderson chief executive Andrew Formica announced the fund manager would be launching a global equity income fund for the Australian market in the coming months. Formica noted the dearth of similar products ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. This is dear Aunt Janet's answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the ...

Sunsuper nabs senior AFA executive

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... remain extremely supportive of the AFA. The AFA, as a professional association, and the broader AFA community are both very dear to my heart. I am also a passionate believer in the AFA's Your Best Interests initiative, which I believe has the power to ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... quickly back to $70 plus, or we have entered an earnings down cycle for an appreciable portion of the market." (Bloomberg) Dear oh dear oh dear, what has the world come to? But to be fair to Michael, he might be alluding to those "aparts" I mentioned ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... income recession in the past two quarters". There you go, that dreaded R word. Australia is recession... an income recession! Dear oh dear. It's been 23 years long since Australia has not had a real GDP recession that we have to have a recession one ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
Brent oil up 4.0% to US$72.94 a barrel; WTI oil up 4.9% to US$69.36 a barrel. Is this it? Have we reached bottom oil? Is this the sliding slippery stuff's equilibrium price? Or just a dead feline bounce? As Bob Dylan would sing to you, "the answer my ...

Retail funds deny relying on passive investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
Three major retail superannuation funds have rejected claims that they are relying on passive investment strategies to keep MySuper product costs down, confirming they have a significant allocation to active managers. Colonial First State head of investment ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Say it again, Homer. "I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" For those who've just tuned in, Wall Street was going, even sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.3% overnight, until it slipped... on oil. The action du' nuit is captured in Bloomberg's ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... to start taper in September that year. And why shouldn't most? The Fed gave all and sundry the impression that frankly, my dear, it doesn't give a damn to what happens with the rest of the world. Here's what Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014