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Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Watermark appoints two sector heads

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... Watermark chief executive Justin Braitling said: "While the local hedge fund industry is a minnow in comparison to our peers in Europe and North America, there is growing recognition that Australia has spawned some strong local hedge funds." "It is a ...

Hedge fund star joins Merchant Group line-up

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
Diversified financial services firm Merchant Group is welcoming a hedge fund veteran to head up its new corporate advisory business. Justin Klintberg, former portfolio manager at European group Marble Bar Asset Management and founder of pan-Asian hedge ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... widely cited by businesses, is that the upturn remains susceptible to being disrupted by political events, especially in Europe." It would be interesting to know global businesses' expectations had the survey been taken after Trump's Obamacare repeal/replace ...

Franklin Templeton launches adviser education tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... market perspective videos and courses on behavioural finance. The academy was launched in 2005 in Asia and expanded to Europe and the Americas.

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... the far-right leader Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection of Trump-like populism in Europe - the resurgence in consumer optimism comes as no surprise. After dropping to a reading of -6.2 in February (from -4.8 in January) ...

Record adviser numbers attend Sydney ABDO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... rates are determined by what happens in our country. The fact is our interest rates are where they are because the US and Europe are at 0% - the Reserve Bank of Australia is more concerned about what happens to the currency due to that yield differential ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... from the Middle East (up 46.4%) as purchases from Japan's other major trading partners declined: China (-17.7%), Western Europe (-7.7%), ASEAN (-1.5%) and the US (-0.7%).

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
In its 9 March statement, the European Central Bank (ECB) stated that, "A very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if ...

BTIM head of sales departs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... has about $87 billion in funds under management as at 31 December 2016. It has operations in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and the United States. It offers more than 50 investment strategies including equities, diversified, property, cash and ...