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Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best levels since before the GFC (January 2008). ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy strengthens." NAB's latest business survey shows Australian business conditions continued to improve strongly, up to a reading of 15 in July ...

IOOF grows against the grain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... significant organic growth momentum," he said. This was demonstrated in the acquisition of National Australia Trustees from NAB which drove a slight revenue increase. It is to grow further as the new capability continues to direct administration funds ...

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... borrowing by businesses picked up sharply jumping one third from 3.1% to 4.4%. This is consistent with the improvement in the NAB business conditions and business confidence survey for June. Even though housing remains the bigger credit component with ...

NAB collaborates on responsible investment bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... Though the order book peaked at more than $500 million, the university sized the bond at $200 million. The bond was arranged by NAB and acted as joint lead manager alongside UBS, while the debt was rated by Moody's as Aa2 (Stable). NAB chief customer ...

Former Wallabies captain joins Stockspot

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... partner strategy. Mortlock has about 10 years' experience in financial services, beginning his career at Citi before moving to NAB where he held a number of roles including serving as a wealth director for its global institutional bank and senior manager ...

Equity Trustees names philanthropy lead

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... general manager of charitable trusts and philanthropy. Jodi Kennedy joins the firm's trustee and wealth services division from NAB where she was head of community engagement for 10 years. At NAB, Kennedy was responsible for creating partnerships, strategic ...

Surge in adviser demand for managed accounts: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... allocating clients' new money or inflows to managed accounts have almost trebled in the last four years, joint research from NAB and Investment Trends shows. This figure has jumped "very substantially" from 10% in 2013 to 26% in 2017 with financial planners ...

Government paves the way for open banking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... ABA, CBA and ANZ have consistently pushed back on the policy, citing privacy, security and cost concerns. Others, including NAB - via NAB Ventures and Reinventure - have directly invested in open API platform providers to allow fintech to securely acquire ...

NAB sells down stake in $350bn asset consultant

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
NAB is selling a 55% stake in JANA to senior JANA management. JANA chief executive Jim Lamborn described the sale as an exciting next step in JANA's 30 year history, adding: "The new management ownership structure model will give us greater flexibility ...