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Macquarie expects profit jump

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... won an investment management mandate from the The Infrastructure Fund - a $2.5 billion unlisted fund - in the December quarter. Macquarie Asset Management had $532 billion in assets under management at December end. Macquarie Infrastructure and Real ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... effects from Brexit uncertainties at home". Gross fixed capital expenditure declined by 1.4% year-on-year in the December quarter following a 0.3% fall in the previous quarter led by the 3.7% drop in business investment - the sharpest rate of decline ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... faster than it currently is," it's slowing (from 3.1% in the year to the September quarter to 2.8% in the December quarter). Indications from more recent activity data - business conditions and confidence, consumer confidence and spending, the AiG ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... economy's national output was double their expected of 0.1%. Year-on-year, Italian GDP grew 0.1% in the year to the December quarter, the fifth straight quarter of slowing GDP growth since the 1.7% recorded in the June quarter of 2017 and followed ...

Praemium to upgrade platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... solution through a digital portal. Overall, Praemium raked in $768 million of new adviser/investor money in the 2018 December quarter. This takes its gross inflows for last year to $2.8 billion which is 10% higher than 2017. In Australia, it extended ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... Aussie share market will grow 0.3% in the next 12 months. Investment Trends research director Recep Peker said the December quarter of 2018 was the most bearish quarter since the GFC, with the average investor expecting no capital gains from domestic ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... growth by two quarters. This suggests that at the very least, wages would remain stuck in the slow lane until the December quarter of this year. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... boil. The eight capital cities weighted average fell by 0.7% in the March quarter after growing by 1% in the December quarter. Sydney residential property prices fell by 1.21% over the March quarter for its third straight quarterly decline while those ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... consumption (C), investment (I), government spending (G) and exports minus imports (X-Y). The details of the December quarter show positive contributions to growth from household consumption (+0.2 pps), private investment (+0.2%), government spending ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... Australian actual capex increase by 0.4% in the March quarter, faster than the 0.2% gain (revised from -0.2%) in the December quarter but only half the 0.8% rise markets expected. Business investment in Australia is even less impressive when looked at ...