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Praemium SMAs go global

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... flagged that Praemium is looking to invest further in the UK pensions market following record inflows for the December quarter. "International FUA is up 34% on last year, and pending further investments in the UK pensions market, we believe that 2018 ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... acceleration in personal income growth and more importantly, real disposable personal income -1.8% in the year to the December quarter from 1.1% in the previous quarter - suggests that there is more consumer spending where it came from. Not only this ...

Clime IM appoints private wealth head from Suncorp

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... investor update, Abernethy also noted that Clime boosted its aggregate funds under management to $812 million in the December quarter. The majority of this FUM is in Clime's individually managed accounts ($396 million), followed by managed funds and ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... good news: For the nth time, China has proven the experts wrong. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.8% in the year to the December quarter following a similar increase in the previous quarter. This is higher than market expectations for an easing to 6.7% predicated ...

Praemium chief flags UK pensions investments after record inflows

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... Ohanessian said the firm is looking to invest further in the UK pensions market following record inflows for the December quarter. With combined gross inflows of $764 million, $216 million of which came from international sources, Praemium said this ...

Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... US potential output growth is 1.8%. Then again, US real GDP growth had been running above this rate since the December quarter of last year (and the unemployment rate below the CBO's 4.7% estimate of the natural rate of unemployment since March this ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... very slim chance of an improvement in household disposable income - its annual growth slowed from 3.2% in the December quarter and 2.1% in the March quarter to 2% in the June quarter - the least since the 1.8% recorded in the December 2009 quarter. If ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... the June quarter from 2.07% in the previous quarter - only just a little bit over the GFC low of 1.76% in the December quarter of 2009. This is not surprising given the sluggish trend in wages - up only 1.9% in the year to the June 2017 quarter. Factor ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
Governor Philip Lowe's statement explaining the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision to keep interest rates unchanged at 1.5% at their 5 September Board meeting, revealed the Australian central bank's optimism over the international ...

Canada economic growth changes gears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... looking at first quarter data showing that GDP growth accelerated to 0.9% (2.3% year-on-year) from 0.7% (2%) in the December quarter. Headline inflation was decelerating from 2.1% in January to 1% in June, the same with the core rate (down from 1.7% ...