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Chief economist update: Breaking up is hard to do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... general uncertainties that this Brexit brouhaha is creating, underscored by the weakening business investment over the past few months. As well as, indications for a continued deterioration in the growth outlook, underscored by the Office for Budget ...

Rejuvenated APRA asserts authority

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... underperforming funds, products and options. Trustees that fail to live up to their obligations, she said, will have very few places to hide. By way of example, there are three out of 28 outlier funds APRA identified 18 months ago that have not responded ...

UK pension funds to be hit hard over negligence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... said bosses who put the futures of their employees at risk have got away lightly for too long. "For too long the reckless few playing fast and loose with people's futures have got away scot-free. Acts of astonishing arrogance and abandon punished only ...

Bond fund launches to local investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... classes on offer, allows the investors to be nimble and act on opportunities within fixed interest as they arise. "Quite a few have told us that by the time they act on an opportunity, it's too late, and they've missed the boat," she said. Loomis ...

Macquarie chief executive on striking a balance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... after they had children, she told attendees. She recalled an International Women's Day Event at Westpac she attended a few years ago. Around the table were 22 women working in senior positions. "At one stage one of the women said, 'Put your hand ...

Financial concerns drive women to online investing

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
Women are more concerned about their financial future than men, while the number of women investing online has almost doubled in the last five years. On International Women's Day, Investment Trends research that shows about 150,000 women are using online ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... financial advice, particularly risk advice, was piqued. "I was constantly talking to advisers and started to get to know a few quite well. I didn't totally understand what they did but I knew they were helping people, and so that really interested ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... employment dictates oblige me to do so. Anyway, this is because, as it turned out, the growth slowdown observed over the past few months that Draghi reasoned was due to the "unusually strong growth" of the last four quarters of 2017. This is 0.7% quarterly ...

Why this HNW adviser avoids hedge funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... attractive as the market-cycle matures and volatility worries investors. To get his alternatives exposure, Viola works with a few pure private equity managers. But what he really prefers is syndicated private assets, where a tight group of 30 to 50 investors ...

ASIC releases AFSL approval data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
Of the 1728 new Australian Financial Services Licence applications ASIC considered last financial year, 758 were approved. Close to 200 AFSLs were cancelled in the same period. Latest statistics from ASIC show that of the 758 approvals, 303 comprised ...