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AMP Capital launches NZ index products

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... Zealand retail investors will now have access to three passively-managed AMP Capital funds. The new funds are the All Country Global Shares Index Fund, the NZ Shares Index Fund and the Hedged Global Fixed Interest Index Fund. They track the MSCI ACWI ...

APRA delivers poor super fund ultimatum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... revisions to its prudential framework, which will be specifically designed to "put pressure on poor performers" in the country's $2.5 trillion superannuation system. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Conference in ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... level in 3-years to 4.06% from 3.07% at the start of 2017-- one that would further tighten liquidity conditions in the country and extrapolated to "the sky is falling". Yet, financial markets didn't see this as a big deal... unless China's stock market ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... Economics 101, we were taught that gross domestic product (GDP) - the value of final goods and services produced in a country at a given time - is derived by the summation of C+I+G+ (X-M). Where C stands for household consumption; I for business investment ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... points reached on 6 November 2017. This is not at all surprising given the latest flow of stronger economic stats in the country - one that has prompted the Bank of England (BOE) to announce its first interest rate hike in more than a decade - it raised ...

Advice the face of wealth management evolution

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... management Paul Howes said there are unintended consequences of FoFA that has restricted the availability of advice in the country. He said robo-advisers and other service providers will find it harder to operate in an increasingly regulated environment ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... feeling I got after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its Wage Price Index (WPI) report showing that the country's employers continue to play Mr. & Mrs. Scrooge. Wages growth accelerated an eensie-weensie bit to 2.0% in the year to the ...

SSGA sales head lands top job, successor named

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... her five-year stint at SSGA in Australia where she led the asset manager's foray into active retail distribution in the country. From standing start in 2012, she grew the business to a team of nine people and total assets under management of over $880 ...

Grant Thornton affirms indigenous commitment with new partner

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... in Papua New Guinea for four years prior to 1999 and was instrumental in establishing the first stock exchange in that country. According to Grant Thornton Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporate sector is largely comprised of ...

Less liquidity to lessen risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... echoed by PBOC governor Zhou Xiaochuan when he warned that China could face a "Minsky moment". Zhou cautioned about the country's "very high" corporate debt and the "need to monitor household leverage quality as it grows". The reduction in liquidity ...