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Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... RBI's 4% (+/- 2%) target. Perhaps, it's too late the hero and easier typed this time after the fact. Still, the slowing trend in inflation should have alerted financial markets that the RBI would do as it did - cut the repo rate by 25 bps to ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... while it looks like Bill may have put his foot in his mouth in the latest "seasonally adjusted" labour market report, the trend estimates show that he's on the right side of being right. The seasonally adjusted estimates might be good for trading ...

Chief economist update: Cut it, cut it now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... on the 11th of the same month, the Australian dollar had been climbing back up - currently trading at US$0.715. The same trend is reflected in the A$ trade weighted index. This is hardly surprising given that the Fed's pause has allowed other major ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
New research from Bloomberg suggests fee margins of global asset managers will drop 11% over the next six years. Most of the 1950 global asset managers surveyed in the Asset Management Outlook to 2025 provided conservative AUM growth forecasts over ...

Major shareholders defy proxy advisers: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... meeting ahead of the vote," McKenna said. The use of technology for voting on AGM resolutions also increased in 2018, a trend Link expects to continue and further democratise the process. "There was a 3.21% increase in online voting in 2018 which is ...

Perfect storm smashes AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... was more relevant. "As this business (financial advice) increasingly becomes more difficult to run, I have seen a general trend of consolidation where people who do financial advice on the side, or have it as a part-time activity, or would have a one-person ...

Chief economist update: RBA still in denial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... remains positive. The unemployment rate is 5%, the lowest in six years. With the economy expected to continue to grow above trend, a further reduction in the unemployment rate is likely. The vacancy rate is high and there are reports of skills shortages ...

Platforms steady after Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... separate platform products (SPPs). "The fear was - if you had a vertically integrated business - that it could accelerate the trend of big books of money from your adviser arms moving towards specialty platforms. But now the fact that it [end of vertical ...

Hayne stops short of dismantling vertical integration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... advisers did not reduce (or continued to increase) as the regulation of the advice industry increases in the coming years, the trend away from vertically integrated institutions may well continue even without him mandating a structural separation. "Enforced ...

Hiring outlook subdued: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... as companies rush to fill in compliance and remediation roles created as a result of the Royal Commission. "Another major trend this half will be the continued movement of technically skilled wealth management professionals, such as paraplanners, into ...