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Praemium to upgrade platform

KANIKA SOOD | WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019

... solution through a digital portal. Overall, Praemium raked in $768 million of new adviser/investor money in the 2018 December quarter. This takes its gross inflows for last year to $2.8 billion which is 10% higher than 2017. In Australia, it extended ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019

... Aussie share market will grow 0.3% in the next 12 months. Investment Trends research director Recep Peker said the December quarter of 2018 was the most bearish quarter since the GFC, with the average investor expecting no capital gains from domestic ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018

... growth by two quarters. This suggests that at the very least, wages would remain stuck in the slow lane until the December quarter of this year. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018

... boil. The eight capital cities weighted average fell by 0.7% in the March quarter after growing by 1% in the December quarter. Sydney residential property prices fell by 1.21% over the March quarter for its third straight quarterly decline while those ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018

... consumption (C), investment (I), government spending (G) and exports minus imports (X-Y). The details of the December quarter show positive contributions to growth from household consumption (+0.2 pps), private investment (+0.2%), government spending ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018

... Australian actual capex increase by 0.4% in the March quarter, faster than the 0.2% gain (revised from -0.2%) in the December quarter but only half the 0.8% rise markets expected. Business investment in Australia is even less impressive when looked at ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018

... interest rate policy has produced an economy that is growing faster than China - GDP grew at 7.3% in the year to the December quarter - to the point of overheating that it's lifting inflation. Turkey's core inflation rate had been in double-digits ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018

... (3.9% unemployment rate and still tame wages growth). The Budget predicts the wage price index - up 2.1% in the December quarter - to grow by 2.25% in FY 2018-19 (still feasible) before accelerating to 2.75% the following year and 3.25% the next. Whether ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 30 APR 2018

... which added to 0.43 percentage points in the first quarter, partially reversing the 0.53 pps subtraction in the December quarter. Although business investment slowed from an annualised growth rate of 6.8% to 6.1% in the March quarter, it is the top contributor ...

Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018

... that, taking the average of the two measures, core inflation had been steadily accelerating from 1.5% in the December quarter of 2016 to 1.95% over the past quarter. While now above the RBA's (February 2018) forecast of 1.75% by the end of the June quarter ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:33PM

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA | 11:56AM

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI | 11:09AM

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA | 12:20PM

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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