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PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
By his own admission, Colin Kelton barely understood what Vanguard did when he applied for a job at the company. But 25 years on he's now principal and managing director of the Australian operations of the $4.4 trillion asset manager, and he can't imagine ...

Advisers beware the uncomfortable truth of the ageing brain

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
Advisers risk losing clients or even facing compensation claims if they do not ready their clients for the cognitive decline that arises from ageing, State Street Global Advisors warns. In a new white paper, the global wealth management firm says all ...

New TAL scheme offers discounts for healthy living

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... with their clients and also embrace changes in the industry, TAL has partnered with executive performance coach at The Body-Brain Performance Institute, Paul Taylor, who will provide tools and insights for these discussions. Taylor is a former British ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Have financial markets stumbled on the one catalyst that could herald the beginning of the end... the end of the sour taste in their mouths for all things "risk" since the onset of 2016? They're getting back their mojos. Many, many times I have scribbled ...

CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is building on its Sydney innovation lab by launching a second lab in Hong Kong and unveiling plans to expand to London later this year. CBA group executive institutional banking and markets, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, said Hong Kong's ...

Super funds should engage in pub theory

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
An Australian superannuation fund hosting your next pub trivia night could soon be a reality if it is not already happening, according to experts in behavioural science. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the rock stars of funds management, investors are choosing safer and cheaper options. As managers warn about an Australian brain drain, experts talk about unpredictable consequences as the best talent disappears to the opaque family office sector. Ibbotson ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... liquidity, though, are more complex, and necessitate a more nuanced understanding of what "alternatives" actually are. "The human brain likes to put things into buckets," says Blue Sky Alternative Investments chief investment officer Alexander McNab ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... known back then - and he's stuck to the same principles ever since. Moore likes to keep his portfolios very focused - "My brain starts to shut down when I have to look at tons of stocks," he says - and then he holds stocks for a long time. "It takes ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget after a positive reception to his second try. Sure ...