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Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) should welcome early signs of flattening (not a sharp and sudden deceleration) in housing credit growth. Personal lending fell by 1.4% in the year to June (unchanged from ...

Labor cracks down on discretionary trusts

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... legitimate reasons, such as asset protection and succession planning can continue using trusts, and under a Labor government will not be taxed like companies, he added. Non-discretionary trusts such as deceased estates, special disability, farm, charitable ...

Australian Unity launches funeral bond

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... guaranteed option, which also charges 1.50% in management fees per annum, is a low-risk option in the short term but its value may not keep up with inflation over longer timeframes, Australian Unity national manager of strategy, life and super Greg Bird ...

DNR scores high in first Zenith SMA review

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... flexibility of direct securities ownership"; and given that investors have beneficial ownership of the underlying assets, they do not need to sell their entire holdings to switch management of the portfolio. Highlighting DNR specifically in its review ...

Crestone appoints banking executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... capacity for maintaining the strong trust of its significant client base of high net worth individuals, family offices and not-for-profit organisations in Australia." "Crestone provides a valuable and distinctive offering to its segments of the market ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... 4.7%. Companies reported revenues that are 1.2% above expectations, better than the 0.5% average positive surprise rate." Not only this, the latest GDP update confirmed Yellen's words that the first quarter weakness was transitory with growth in the ...

Direct life insurance review underway: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... ASIC is looking to implement some of the tools and techniques that we've developed to review cultures within firms." ASIC is not looking to regulate a firms' culture, Saadat noted, but understands that poor culture can drive behaviour and consequently ...

DomaCom to ease issue of retirement funding

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... sub-fund that owns a residential property rented by a related party; and that the DomaCom Fund is one widely held trust and does not breach the sole purpose test. A case management hearing is scheduled for 8 August at which an actual hearing date will ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... also means the investment team needs to be carefully managed. "The asset class we haven't invested internally to date, and is not immediately on the horizon in terms of large scale investing, is private equity," Silk said. "[It's for] a couple of reasons ...

Property overpowers asset class returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... investing, particularly in this current climate of global economic and political uncertainty, adding it is even more critical not to make investment decisions based on past performance. Another risky strategy is relying on residential property, which ...