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Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... Morrison emerging as the country's 30th Prime Minister. And oh, the sixth head of Australia since Julia Gillard started the trend of back-knifing leaders in 2007. Yes, Australia... this is a thing now. The All Ordinaries index ended the week of 20-24 ...

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Scott Morrison will be Australia's next Prime Minister, after he beat Peter Dutton 45-40 in a Liberal Party leadership ballot. The ASX 200 jumped on the news, after trending downwards since Monday. It hit its highest at 1.05pm, when it was up 0.33% ...

Advisers divided over health programs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
Life insurers increasing the awareness of client health and wellbeing programs still have hills to climb to win financial planner recommendations, latest industry research shows. An Investment Trends survey of 495 financial planners, completed in June ...

Equity Trustees net profit up 28pct, execs get bonuses

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
... performed well: trustee and wealth services revenue was up 11%, corporate trustee and fund services was up 10%. "The industry trend clearly favours Equity Trustees' specialist model and heightened focus on governance and financial services, both ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... alliances." Over the last five years, the proportion of life insurance written inside superannuation has increased - this trend may reverse in the next five years if the changes to default insurance in superannuation announced in the 2018/19 budget are ...

JPMorgan fund excludes tobacco, cuts fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's flagship multi-asset strategy in Australia now excludes tobacco stocks. It also cut its administration fee by five basis points and recently converted to a trust structure. The Australian-domiciled version of the JPMorgan ...

HUB24 lifts targets

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
HUB24 has lifted its revenue targets for the next three years, as it its platform and advice licensee swelled their revenues in FY18. It is now expecting to hit $19-$23 billion in funds under advice in by FY21, as opposed to its last year's forecast ...

Frequent traders re-evaluate broking landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
Online brokers are being presented with a new business case to capture the most frequent traders - a group which has spiked in its considerations about switching broking platforms. Research firm Investment Trends said 9% of traders which transact more ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... GDP growth rate has slowed from 4.8% in the March 2016 quarter to just 2.9%% in the same quarter of this year. The slowing trend in the country's economic growth could be starting to impact the labour market. The RBNZ predicts GDP growth of 2.7% ...

Former advice specialist hired as Zenith analyst

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... Zenith Investment Partners has hired a former associate financial adviser as an investment analyst, continuing a hiring trend it started earlier this year. James Damicoucas spent two-and-a-half years as an associate financial adviser at Perpetual Private ...