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HNWs to embrace alternatives in 2019: Fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... private debt and infrastructure. The firm said it is backing a thesis that the best financial advisers and family offices will trend towards institutional portfolio construction and allocate more to alternatives as the Australian listed market faces ...

Vertical integration changes to reshape personal wealth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
A forecast of trends influencing banking over the next 12 months cites vertically integrated business models continuing to give way to platform and marketplace-driven banking. Infosys Finacle recently released its annual banking trends forecast for ...

Chief economist update: Anatomy of an RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... pessimists outnumbered optimists in January 2019 - not a good omen for retail spending. Especially, given the weakening trend in employment (notwithstanding the better-than-expected seasonally adjusted jobs result for December) that's due mainly ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... provide a clear direction of the labour market. Try and discern the labour market's direction from the chart below: The trend is our friend. It's clearer from the charted trend in employment growth. Total employment, along with full-time employment ...

Advice jobs are coming: Recruiter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 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 ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... the worst performer out of 24 countries for the second consecutive year." This is before stabilising in 2020 due to above-trend GDP growth and increased net immigration. Those of us in the forecasting (guessing) business could only infer that Fitch's ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... respective economies. All nine regions reported increasing capital investments with some saying that production is a rising trend. This is a feat in itself, given the on-going uncertainty surrounding the Sino-US trade war and the slowing Chinese economy. ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... surpassed the $40 billion milestone to sit at $40.41 billion. Vanguard head of ETF capital markets Damien Sherman said the trend to move towards international equities ETFs is not a surprise, and added ETFs continued to grow in the face of difficult ...

BlackRock to drop 500 staff

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
About 500 BlackRock staff will be laid off in the coming weeks, the investment house has confirmed. In an internal memo to staff, BlackRock president Rob Kapito said growing market uncertainty and evolving investor preferences are driving the firm's ...

Hiring continues but wage growth under pressure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... is a good sign for the health of the labour market." Despite the positive story in these figures, Pearson noted that "the trend underemployment rate, which measures those people who want more hours of work, is stuck." "It will be hard to achieve stronger ...