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WAM names prospective Blue Sky LIC team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... considering the update as it finalises the manager arrangements for the LIC. Wilson made a bid to take control of the LIC on October 24, a week after BAF and Blue Sky announced they would split and a new Pinnacle boutique would be appointed as the ma ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... a negative wealth effect. To these could be added the persistent decline in personal credit - down 1.6% in the year to October from 1.5% in the previous month. Personal credit had consistently decreased over the past 34 months. While the RBA has explicitly ...

Former planner charged with dishonesty

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... another company of which he is the sole director - Equity Capital Partners Hedge Fund - on a further seven occasions across October and November 2015. ASIC was recently successful in its bid to wind up the companies Grimm allegedly used to facilitate ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the capex details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... spending. The rise in capex expectations could be linked to the NAB business survey that although business conditions eased in October, the reading of 12 remains more than twice its long-run average of five, that NAB chief economist Alan Oster says ...

Super pool ripe for adviser picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... ClearView, predicts Australia will need 29,400 advisers by 2022 to cater to Baby Boomers. According to Rainmaker data, as at October 2018 there was 24,889 advisers on ASIC's Financial Adviser Register. With widespread predictions that up to 50% of ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... Claus rally this year after all! US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell spooked us all - in the Halloween month of October - when, in an interview with PBS, he declared that: "The really extremely accommodative low interest rates that we needed when ...

Miscalculations delay remediation, more issues emerge: AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... it done in 18 months, and three years was the most likely timeframe to be able to complete this," Wilkins said. As at October 31, AMP still has not remediated anything under the new program as it is yet to reach an agreement with ASIC as to how the process ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
Minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 24-25 October Governing Council meeting confirmed that it remains on track to end its net asset purchases - currently at a monthly pace of €15 billion - by the end of December 2018. No probs here. We've ...

Overhaul executive remuneration: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... packets. This is despite Livingstone defending the banks' remuneration practices at a Standing Committee on Economics in October 2017, claiming it had made the "right determination." When chief executive Matt Comyn was sworn in, the board decided to ...

Chief economist update: Where are the BOJ exit speculators now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... just about where they were at the beginning of the year. The headline inflation rate increased by 1.4% in the year to October, up from 1.2% in the previous month but just a tick higher than January 2018's 1.3% annual rate, driven by higher prices ...