Powered by MOMENTUM MEDIA
lawyers weekly logo

News

default image

08 January 2014 • By James Mitchell • 1 min read

BNP Paribas bullish on spread sectors

BNP Paribas is optimistic about the prospects for US high yield, bank loans, peripheral eurozone debt and commercial mortgage-backed securities in ...

READ MORE
icon

Risk-free rate re-pricing could create losses: Altius

A change in US interest rates combined with tapering by the US Federal Reserve will see a re-pricing of the risk-free rate that could result in large ...

READ MORE
icon

Opinions divided on US impact on Australia

Middletons Securities is repeating its recommendation of last year that investors target Australian companies with international income

READ MORE
icon

Fundamental indexing: fundamentally flawed?

‘Smart beta’ strategies that are marketed to investors as ‘index’ funds are in fact taking big bets against the market, according to Vanguard

READ MORE
icon

Chinese business activity slowing: HSBC

Chinese business activity growth has slowed to the weakest rate since August 2011, new research from HSBC has revealed. The HSBC China Composite ...

READ MORE
icon

Media Super fined for misleading SMSF ads

ASIC has fined the industry fund Media Super for producing potentially misleading advertisements about SMSFs. The corporate regulator stated that ...

READ MORE
icon

Insurance strategy driving returns: Zurich

Insuring its portfolio against market volatility is a key differentiator for the Zurich Investments Equity Income Fund, according to Zurich Financial ...

READ MORE
icon

FOFA intent remains 'true': FPA

Recent media coverage of the government’s proposed FOFA amendments has been misleading, according to the Financial Planning Association (FPA)

READ MORE
icon

T+3 settlement an ‘anomaly’: Omgeo

Australia is lagging behind much of the world when it comes to reducing settlement times from three days to two days, according to post-trade ...

READ MORE
icon

Global commodity prices up in December

Global commodity prices rose over December, with HSBC’s proxy for the IMF primary commodity price index increasing 3.5 per cent in US dollar terms for ...

READ MORE