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Australian subscription firms outperform ASX growth index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
A new report on the subscription economy has revealed Australian subscription companies grew revenues 10 times the rate of the ASX sales-per-share index. The report by Zoura found that over a seven year period, from 2012 to 2018, the companies featured ...

Barefoot Investor boosts Rest indexed options demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
... will help make a difference, she added. Rest's app, which was launched in 2017, has about 200,000 users who log in four times a month on average. Virtual assistant Roger, which has answered 750,000 questions from members, is combined with the live ...

Emerging markets for the win: ABDO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... currency exposures and occasionally, alternatives. It's absolute return strategy (in pounds) has met this objective 93% of the times in its 18-year-long history. Campbell founded the Pyrford's predecessor company in 1982 in Melbourne (as a part of Elders ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... capitalist/market economy stabilisation policy theory advising increased government spending to shore up domestic demand in times of recession and/or slowing growth. And if that's not enough, authoritarian China would also persuade (?) financial ...

Grandfathered commissions ban unconstitutional: Association

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... director Peter Johnston told members: "As you no doubt know, grandfathered revenue has become a political football in recent times. Due to the confusion over its origins - thanks to consumer groups and the institutional lobby - it has been portrayed ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... Economic Analysis' (BEA) uses the "annualised growth rate" to measure changes in the economy - the quarterly growth rate times four (in simple terms) - to provide an indication of what it would look like if the economy had a full year of growth like ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... and Government, Government got worn down in trying to land on the right objective," George said. "It was one of the few times since I've been in the super industry where you've had the major different parts of the sectors - industry funds, retail funds ...

J.P. Morgan introduces digital currency for instos

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... J.P. Morgan's institutional clients. It is redeemable for the equivalent amount in US dollars, thereby reducing settlement times, the bank said. J.P. Morgan said it will begin using the coin for a fraction of the $8.45 trillion it moves for institutions ...

Future Fund delivers 5.8%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... perform resiliently in market downturns, he said. "The correlation is that it can underperform relative to balanced funds in times of boom, like when the stock market is up." The Future Fund now has $147 billion in assets under management. The 10-year ...

Synchron slams RC on commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... to realise that advisers selling books of clients that were generating grandfathered commissions were receiving about two times revenue," he said. "January 1 2021 is two years away, so the recommendation means advisers with these books will receive two ...