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Chief economist update: Trump's beggar thy neighbour policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... the downward pull on the growth of America's neighbours, making it harder for them to lift their purchases of "made in USA" products even if they wanted to. Last week's drop in equity markets (including Wall Street) show that Trump's "beggar ...

ASIC to ramp up trustee visits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
Superannuation funds should get accustomed to leaving the front door open for ASIC as the regulator flagged it will pay trustees more periodic visits. Presenting a regulatory update at the AIST Super Investment Conference? in Cairns yesterday, ASIC ...

Advisers divided over health programs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
Life insurers increasing the awareness of client health and wellbeing programs still have hills to climb to win financial planner recommendations, latest industry research shows. An Investment Trends survey of 495 financial planners, completed in June ...

GBST Australian revenues dip, UK picks up

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... investment. Global revenue declined from $13.6 million in FY17 to $11.5 million, as service revenue from project work in APAC and USA fell. Overall, full year revenue was up marginally in FY18 but NPAT was down 10.5%. The company is debt free and had ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
Boom! That's the sound of the US economy popping up to an annualised rate of 4.1% in the second quarter of 2018, up from an upwardly revised 2.2% (from 2%) expansion in the first quarter. While this is in line with market expectations, it's ...

BetaShares hires institutional executive from BlackRock

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
BetaShares has hired an executive from BlackRock's institutional sales team to fill a newly-created role. Dan Annan is joining the $5.6 billion exchange-traded product manager in the newly-created role of director - institutional business. He was ...

Chief economist update: Friday when the trade war began

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... to which China immediately responded with a percent-for-percent and dollar-for-dollar border tax of its own on "Made in the USA" produce. This is just for starters. More's on the way. In two weeks' time, the US will implement tariffs on an additional ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
Cryptocurrency usage in Australia is currently not large enough to raise policy concerns for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), an official from the central bank said in Sydney yesterday. The Reserve Bank has closely followed developments in the crypto ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Saxo Capital Markets Australia has launched its new active trading platform that will let users trade over 35,000 financial instruments at no monthly fees and without expensive legacy hardware. The product is aimed at professional traders and smaller ...

Yarra Capital executive joins AUI board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... a bachelor of arts from Monash University. He earned his MBA from Columbia Business School, New York. Before moving to the USA, he worked at Boston Consulting Group, doing quantitative and financial analysis and managing clients and projects. AUI'S portfolio ...