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PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Natasha Fenech has a talent for coming up with strategies to solve problems and a passion for all things precise. She has combined the two during more than 24 years in financial services and, most recently, as AMP self-managed super fund (SMSF) business' ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The emerging markets investment landscape is best understood in terms of country blocs that perform similarly as the macro environment evolves, according to Investec Asset Management Global Strategist, Dr Michael Power. Power presented an analogy where ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
Li gets what Li likes. Yes Virginia, I've typed this phrase so many, many, many times -- changed from 'Wen gets what Wen wants when Wen wants it' when Li Kequiang took over China's premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
Governments must slash corporate, income and capital gains tax, wind back environmental reforms and break up the big banks if they want to recover from the "global depression", bestselling author and economist James G. Rickards has told superannuation ...

AMP Capital invests in North American renewable assets

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
AMP Capital has grown its global infrastructure debt platform, forming a new partnership with Alterra Power Corporation. AMP Capital's Infrastructure Debt Fund II has arranged and structured a C$110 million subordinated loan for Alterra, a leading global ...

Govt seeks discretion to freeze super guarantee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The Treasurer may soon have discretionary power to further delay the rise of the superannuation guarantee to 12%, following the passage of legislation in the lower house yesterday. The legislation was part of a large suite of amendments labelled the ...

FSC calls for new govt agency to grow industry overseas

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
A new government agency should be established to progress the global export of our funds management industry, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said in its second round submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The new body, as envisaged ...

AMP lifts minimum adviser standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Australia's largest advice business AMP will require that all of its financial planners hold a post-graduate degree, a move that aims to increase trust in advisers. All existing and new AMP advisers must hold post-graduate qualifications such as a Certified ...

Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Australian Ethical has made it possible for Australians to investing in ethical fixed interest assets for the first time with the launch of a new fund. The Australian Ethical Fixed Interest Trust comprises a diversified portfolio of Australian dollar-denominated ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia will be one of the countries most impacted by the seismic shift which will put Asia at the centre of a new world order. That is the opinion of the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and ...