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Advisers wary of unlisted assets: Sunsuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... because where are businesses finding the people they need to grow?" He added: "We're also seeing that corporate and household debt levels in Australia and around the world don't have much room to grow. How much more debt can you ram down people's throats?" ...

SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... the long-term by investing in multiple ETFs. Asset classes include domestic and international equities and investment-grade debt securities. Meanwhile, the income-based strategy seeks to provide exposure to income and yield-generating investments across ...

Chief economist update: The power of one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... the RBA cuts in June. Doing more would do more harm than good. It could re-inflate the property market bubble and household debt, that (as of the December 2018 quarter) was running at a record high 189.6% of disposable income - ultimately, lifting financial ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... tariff revenues." And if push comes to shove, China could employ the "nuclear option" and sell down its US$1.1 trillion US debt holdings to force Trump into submission. War really is good for absolutely nothing.

ASIC bans adviser over super theft

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... was reported some of McSweeny's clients lost between $600,000 and $1 million in retirement savings. The total amount of debt owed by the 14 companies to creditors amounted to about $9.8 million. The Commonwealth director of public prosecutions is ...

Chief economist update: Like Britney Spears, Financial Standard's done it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... Australian economy. This is because a second rate CUT would reignite the bubble in the property market and lift household debt to new record highs. Then again, you, I and Irene, will have to wait for how these new developments pan out, plug it into the ...

Property risks dip at Coalition win, APRA easing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... time of heightened risk. Although many of those risk factors remain - high house prices, low interest rates, high household debt, and subdued income growth - two more recent developments have led us to review the appropriateness of the interest rate ...

Credit fund launches to wholesale investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... between the relatively low returns from cash and government bonds but materially below the risk of a well-managed corporate debt investment mandate. Moelis Australia Asset Management is a subsidiary of ASX-listed Moelis Australia (MOE), which was established ...

Zenith acquires New Zealand firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... sale will be finalised before the end of this month. NZX is New Zealand's exchange and a markets business operating equity, debt, derivatives and energy markets providing trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services. It owns Smartshares ...

Fintech no real threat: Researcher

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... Volt Bank. But, fintechs face significant funding constraints with limited access to capital markets and other sources of debt funding. The incumbents do not have this issue. Moody's predicts the large incumbent banks in Australia will defend their market ...