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iShares to launch global fixed income ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... emerging market bonds. "Already Australian investors can create reasonably diverse portfolios with ETFs but there is a glaring hole when it comes to global fixed income - which is a key component of a truly diversified portfolio," iShares chief executive ...

Senate hears too many holes for women in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Several superannuation representative groups are addressing federal parliament with the belief there are too many holes for women in Australia's current retirement savings system. Ahead of the Senate public hearing looking at economic security for women ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single bit at what used to be 'the decider' annual symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Some argue for a lift this year (we won't quibble about whether it's September or December) citing the strengthening ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... "Dodd-Frank gives an exemption to family offices that has always existed in the Investment Advisors Act 1940. It's a loop hole big enough for a 10 ton truck to drive through," he said. In 2011 George Soros took advantage of the exemption and changed ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... inflation rate of unemployment) has also gone down from the estimated 5.0%. I'm pretty sure the Fed will address this at the "Hole" when it talks about "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" on 27-29 August. Enough time before we put our final bets ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... out. Perhaps, not for long. We may even receive a telegraph message from the Fed before the September FOMC meeting. Jackson Hole is coming this August, on the 27th up to the 29th. Yes, that annual central bankers' economic symposium where according to ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... countries, The Los Angeles Times reported." "No country is an island," she said Friday at the Fed's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "Looking at the wider effect is in your self-interest," she said. "It is in all of our interests." We all ...

Medcraft sticks up for asset managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Imposing new banking regulations on asset managers would be like "creating a square peg for a round hole," according to ASIC and International Oraganization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) chair Greg Medcraft. Speaking in his capacity as the head ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... when the Melbourne/Sydney house price bubble will pop, but if it does over the next year or two coinciding with when the hole in growth from the decline in mining investment spending is at its deepest, the risk that Australia could experience a recession ...

Share market flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "There's a broad realisation that the market's not falling in a hole." BHP Billiton was up 38 cents at $29.62, its spinoff South32 was steady at $2.37, Rio Tinto had gained 72 cents to $57.62 ...