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America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... growth remains sluggish. The same employment report showed that average hourly earnings rose by just 2.5% in the year to November - better than October's 2.3% annual rate but both are smaller than the year-on-year rates of the past four months. The law ...

Synchron adds to adviser network

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
A financial planning firm recently acquired by AZ Next Generation Advisory in a private equity deal has joined Synchron's growing network. Based in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, Dunsford Financial Planning brings the total number of authorised representatives ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) didn't disappoint market expectations when it conducted its last board meeting for 2017. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate where it had been since August 2016, at a record low 1.5%. The December ...

OneVue brings 25 funds on to platform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
Following a key mandate win last November, OneVue has transitioned 25 funds onto its managed funds administration platform. Through its five-year partnership with NAB Asset Servicing, 25 UBS Asset Management products will now reside on the OneVue Fund ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... goods category." November data for the services PMI is not yet available but even if it remains unchanged at 54.1 in November (up from 53.8 in September), the composite PMI reading would remain at elevated levels. This is the view of "16,000 purchasing ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
"You can't make people be confident, I certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

RNY unitholders left unpaid after Aurora scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
Many unitholders in the RNY Property Trust have yet to be compensated following the takeover by Aurora Funds Management, whose chief financial officer was terminated after $1 million vanished from a listed Aurora trust last weekend, and ASIC has so ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
"The economy will continue growing at a robust pace. Business investment outside the housing and mining sectors will pick up, with exports boosted as new resource-sector capacity comes on stream. The strengthening labour market and household incomes ...

Aurora CFO terminated as $1m vanishes from listed trust

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
Aurora Funds Management has terminated the employment of its chief financial officer after $1 million was withdrawn from the bank account of a listed Aurora vehicle over the weekend. Terminated chief financial officer Betty Poon's involvement in the ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... last Thursday got just a little hoo-ha last week. Even the S&P/ASX 200 index closed a mere 0.06% weaker on the 24th of November - the day when the Shanghai composite index fell by 2.3% and the blue chip CSI 300 index plunged by 3.0%. According to CNBC ...