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Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... continuation of a softening in housing demand conditions in coming months." Worse, the latest read from the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey showed the "Index of House Price Expectations fell 4.1% to 95.9 in January, marking a new ...

Advice firm hires from Macquarie Private Wealth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
A former division director at Macquarie Private Wealth has joined a Melbourne-based boutique wealth management firm. Paul Grifa is joining Steward Wealth as a director, along with his long-standing assistant Kiera Lecher. He joins the firm's two founding ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
A Melbourne bond manager won a $180 million mandate from UniSuper as the super fund increased its allocation to fixed income. UniSuper appointed Jamieson Coote Bonds to manage about $180 million in Australian government bonds in November. The mandate ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... dwelling prices data, would-be homebuyers could now purchase a home in Sydney at a $101,000 discount from the peak, Melbourne buyers could buy theirs $78,000 cheaper and about $43,500 less across Australia overall. Looks cheap and enticing but... they ...

MLC Centre goes on the market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... within the office tower. The divestment would see GPT's Sydney office exposure drop by 5% to 60% while its weighting to Melbourne would grow from 30% to 34%. Considered a landmark in Sydney, the MLC Centre comprises 66,829 square metres of office space ...

Sunsuper expands advice business

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... Sunsuper appointed Lauren Matthews, former business development manager at ING Direct, who now serves as Sunsuper's Melbourne business development manager. Sunsuper is one of Australia's largest super and retirement funds, serving 1.3 million ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... revealed. Strategic Insight tracks 13.5 million individual data points for a wide universe of companies. It has an office in Melbourne and provides industry data and intelligence on superannuation funds, Aussie insurers In Australia, managed funds and ...

Equip wins $190m superannuation mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... ground-handling businesses. Qantas' food business includes Q Catering and Snap Fresh. Q Catering has centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Equip chief executive Nicholas Vamvakas said winning the trust and confidence of dnata and its ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... aggregate home value index declined by 6.4% in the year to December - led by an 8.9% drop in Sydney and a 7% fall in Melbourne. Still, in its November 2018 'Monetary Policy Statement', the RBA remained relatively sanguine about it. "The easing ...

Andrew Hagger to lead investment, philanthropy group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... Hagger is chair of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre Appeal, founding director of The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne and senior international advisor to Not for Sale, a non-profit looking to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery. ...