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Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... fund managers on the list included: IFM Investors (US$79bn), BT Investment Management (US$75bn) and Challenger (US$55bn). Overall, Australia's largest fund manager assets jumped more than 18% to US$1.3 trillion year-on-year. WTW head of manager research ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... tax on income that limits consumption while at the same time increasing the costs of production that by extension lowers overall economic growth. We've all been witness to this. The drop in oil prices from around US$115/barrel in mid-2014 (reaching ...

Gender diversity in advice dormant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... non-aligned or employee-owned licensees appear to have far higher ratios of women, accounting for 38% of total advisers. Overall, the licensees with the most women advisers are AMP, SMSF Advisers Network, Commonwealth Financial Planning, Westpac and ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... indicating mounting downward pressure on China's economy. The subindex for new orders fell, pointing to softening overall demand conditions. The employment subindex edged up despite staying in negative territory, which could possibly be due to government ...

The lucky country for fintechs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... firms, is a more important regulatory innovation. Hubs and sandboxes do not depend on one another," the report reads. Overall, the report aims to highlight the potential of fintech in increasing access to basic financial services. The research has helped ...

ANZ wealth flows decline

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... ANZ retains a 20-year agreement with Zurich and IOOF to distribute products to ANZ customers via bancassurance channels. Overall, about 2817 full time ANZ Australian staff have been affected by the divestments; 717 of which are aligned advisers. What ...

Macquarie, CFS top Aussie fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... fund managers on the list included: IFM Investors (US$79bn), BT Investment Management (US$75bn) and Challenger (US$55bn). Overall, Australia's largest fund manager assets jumped more than 18% to US$1.3 trillion year-on-year. WTW head of manager research ...

Super-size me: Latest employment trends

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... media manager commands upwards of $150,000. Director of Perceptor's financial services practice, Richard Baker said overall candidate sentiment was higher than 2017 but bank wealth demergers and the Royal Commission are keeping movement limited. ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... start in the first quarter of 2018 had been replaced by back-to-back quarters of exceptionally strong contributions to overall growth from American household consumption. The US economy expanded at an annualised rate of 3.5% in the third quarter following ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... world, ECB President Mario Draghi remains unfazed. "Incoming information, while somewhat weaker than expected, remains overall consistent with an ongoing broad-based expansion of the euro area economy and gradually rising inflation pressures. The underlying ...