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ISN expand policy and research team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... quantitative and investment analyst and at the Royal Bank of Scotland as a quantitative analyst-equity research. Zaheed brings to ISN industry and academic experience in economics and financial markets, with a special focus on the social and economic ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... measures and establishes clear deadlines in many areas," says EU economic chief Olli Rehn. What the? I don't know about you but isn't this a perverse reaction? Markets rebounded because a country is choking its economy with tougher austerity so that ...

Innovative income fund pays dividends

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... clearly sub-optimal from an after-tax point of view, I can't see how any managed fund can claim to be 'tax efficient' if it isn't managed from the perspective of a single class of tax payer." Having been an advocate of after-tax investing for many years ...

ISN calls for fast trading moratorium

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... funds and there should be a moratorium in the Australian financial markets on using the systems, said Industry Super Network (ISN). ISN's suggestion is part of a submission released today on an ASIC consultation paper on high frequency trading. The practice ...

ISN blasts FSC's independence policy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... Financial Services Council's definition of independence is "novel," said David Whiteley, chief executive, Industry Super Network (ISN). Policy released last month by the representative body provided mandatory guidelines that said a majority of directors ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... falling household confidence - down to 60.6 in August from 65.4 in July - doesn't bode well for future consumer spending. But it isn't only America's domestics that the Fed should be worried about. In this world of inter-connected economies and markets ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... time. Until the March quarter GDP stats showed the economy growing at a 4.5% clip. That's way above the 3.25% - 3.5% trend, isn't it? Even the "disappointing" 3.7% growth in the second quarter is above trend. The Labour Force Report for August due out ...

Retail investors buy hybrids despite dangers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... just one number. "This is evinced by the egregious financial disasters that befall retail investors time and time again. It isn't easy to focus on, or understand, risk and volatility, so retail investors ignore these factors and almost exclusively focus ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

APRAs' best intentions misleading: Super industry

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... APRA, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), the Actuaries Institute and the Industry Super Network (ISN) said they had serious concerns about APRA's proposed "Standard Risk Measure" for super fund members, which measures the expected ...