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Spire Copper Rock small cap fund added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
The Spire Copper Rock Capital Global Smaller Companies Fund is now available on key platforms including BT and Macquarie Wrap.

JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund added to more platforms

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Unconstrained fixed income solution, the JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund, has been added to the AMP and netwealth platforms.

ETF businesses bullish on growth prospects

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Exchange traded fund (ETF) businesses expect to grow by nearly 18% per year for the next three to five years, according to EY's 2015 Global ETF Survey.

OneVentures seeks super fund investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Following Malcolm Turnbull's innovation statement, OneVentures is exploring a potential opportunity to add superannuation funds as investors in its Innovation and Growth Fund II.

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Key words: "economy performing well"; "policy remains accommodative"; "normalizing interest rates is likely to proceed gradually". What's there to unlike?

Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Nikko Asset Management's global investment committee (GIC) has lifted its stance on global equities to moderately overweight from neutral, citing healthy economic growth prospects in the United States.

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Australia is still someway off rebalancing its economy following the end of the mining boom and investors must consider the real possibility of recession, warns PIMCO.

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The top earning international shares exchange traded product (ETP) didn't even exist 12 months ago.

RBA Gov on Fed lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The much-speculated, much-debated, much-awaited lift-off is upon us.

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
"More than half of economists polled predict federal-funds rate back near zero within next five years".