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Praemium signs wealth management heavyweight

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... numbers follow Praemium's push to expand its SMA offerings in the recent months. It first launched global SMAs in January, adding international models from the likes of Arnhem Investment Management, Joseph Palmer & Sons and Watershed.

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
We are one and we are many, and all of us don't expect any movement from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) when it meets at 2.30pm today for its monthly monetary policy deliberations. Yes Virginia, RBA Governor Philip Lowe has already gone on ...

Liquidnet and OTAS ramp up AI play

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... particularly as the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulation started in January. MiFID II essentially separates or unbundles the pricing of investment research and execution. "With unbundling there's ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... state and trend in the housing market useless. This year alone, total dwelling approvals surged by 18.3% in the month of January, dropped by 6% in February, and climbed by 3.5% in April. The year-on-year estimates are equally confounding - up 14.4% in ...

SMAs leading growth at Praemium

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... numbers follow Praemium's push to expand its SMA offerings in the recent months. It first launched global SMAs in January, adding international models from the likes of Arnhem Investment Management, Joseph Palmer & Sons and Watershed, Financial Standard ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 is one of the years that the "sell in May" adage didn't apply. ...

Big data's big retirement benefits

DARREN SNYDER, STEPHEN FAY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Management global head of retirement solutions Sabrina Bailey said recent volatility in market performance throughout January and February resulted in a six standard deviation result of millennials switching high growth investments in life-cycle funds ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... euro strengthened versus the US dollar. The euro currency's recent reversal - down to US$1.1655 from US$1.2503 in January - should help underpin share market gains. However, while the euro's recent depreciation is partly a function of US dollar ...

Life insurance data improving: Regulators

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... second pilot phase, admitted claims increased by 1% over the previous release to equal 93% of finalised claims between January 2017 and June 2017. According to the data, group and individual advised cover outperformed the admittance rate of individual ...

Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... undertaking with ASIC, in a settlement subject to Federal Court approval. The corporate regulator had dragged it to the court in January, alleging BBSW rate rigging. CBA acknowledged its conduct was unconscionable on five occasions and its policies and ...