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Growth spurs new hires at Australian Unity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... with a range of portfolio services across fixed interest, real estate investment trusts and sustainable investing to name a few. Australian Unity executive general manager of investment Geraldine Barlow said the timing of the appointments coincided with ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... it's soared to its highest level in 16 months last night. Goes to show you cast a wide net and you're bound to catch a few fishes. But I digress. Underpinning the US dollar's strength is the Fed's journey towards policy normalisation. ...

Gender diversity in advice dormant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
About one-in-three financial advisers aligned with some of Australia's largest institutions are female but women still represent less than one quarter of all advisers. Latest insight from Rainmaker shows the gender diversity of Australia's financial ...

GAM chief executive steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... saying its next stage of evolution would be best served by new leadership. The latest development in what has been a tough few months for the Swiss-based global asset manager, Friedman agreed to step down yesterday with GAM board director and former ...

Westpac admits it didn't take FoFA seriously

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
Westpac said while implementing the Future of Financial Advice reforms, it did not embed strong enough controls and record-keeping to police fee-for-no-service advice. The admission was made in the bank's annual sustainability report released today ...

October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... period of risk aversion, he said. "The sharp downgrade our Investor Confidence Index recorded in September was one of the few early warning signs of the ensuing market turbulence that has followed. Confidence has fallen further in October and is more ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... the first Tuesday of November - the time when the "Melbourne Cup" runs and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets only a few hours apart. All bets are on! There are so many odds on the various horses running in the Cup but there's only one on ...

Royal Commission hits Westpac cash earnings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
Westpac reported a flat net profit of $8 billion with increased remediation provisions and legal costs weighing on the group's cash earnings. The group recorded a 1% increase in net profit year-on-year to $8.095 billion for the 12 months to September ...

Managed accounts provider replaces Praemium

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... InvestSMART's. Starting yesterday, InvestSMART is putting new clients in the PMA solution but the complete transition will take a few months. InvestSMART is an ASX-listed company with a market cap of about $22 million. Its board is chaired by ipac ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... risk in the portfolio by reducing the high weighting to shares, and lock in some of the gains in share markets over the past few years. We're closely monitoring any signs of deterioration in the economic outlook, although at this stage the global ...