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100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
The 29th of April 2017 marked the first 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn in as chief executive of America, Inc. "Donald, you're fired!" should be what Americans tell him if poll ratings are anything to go by. In her piece on al.com, Leada Gore ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Bullish on growth, not so on inflation. This is the unifying message from three of the world's major central banks that met over the past 24 hours. As widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept monetary policy settings unchanged - discount rate at ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
The world's largest fund manager has shifted the goal posts for active equity investment, announcing it will take the enormous step of combining humans and machines for stock selection. The question is what scale does this new man and machine combination ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
It'll be interesting to be a fly on the wall of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) boardroom today when Governor Philip Lowe and his team deliberate on what to do with the country's monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the Australian ...

Aussie investors push tobacco exclusions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
A global active fund manager says Australia is at the forefront of the shift towards ex-tobacco investment portfolios. Vontobel Asset Management global equities portfolio manager Ramiz Chelat said majority of the firm's assets in Australian mandates ...

BlackRock moves to machine stock picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
After an extensive review BlackRock has restructured its active equities product offering and affirmed its plans to integrate artificial intelligence, hinting that future jobs will be aligned with robots. In positioning itself for the future, the world's ...

Fintech Nod takes on the unadvised

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
A new fintech is hoping to reach out to the 80% of people who don't see financial advisers via a digital financial advice platform. Nod, backed by accelerator H2 Ventures, is aiming to bring financial experts to people on demand. Clients can ask a question ...

No such thing as a must own company: Analyst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
An analyst and portfolio manager of the Pan-Tribal Global Equity Fund believes there is no such thing as a 'must own' company. Sharing the view at a recent Pan-Tribal lunch for advisers, Danton Goei of Davis Advisors said investors can get caught up ...

Findex assigns Aussie equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Findex has awarded the mandate for its managed discretionary Australian core equity portfolios to an active equities manager. Following a rigorous review program by the Findex investment team, Altair Asset Management secured the contract, having first ...

Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
"The February NAB Monthly Business Survey gave back the surprisingly strong gains seen in the previous month..." This was the opening line of the NAB report on business confidence and business conditions for February. How much were given back? Business ...