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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... levels that occurred in 2015 and 2014". Then again, these are April numbers - before the RBA cut interest rates and most banks passing on the full reduction in May. Japan retail sales The latest retail spending figures perhaps explain Prime Minister ...

Financial services given hand to protect seniors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... dollars." Protecting Seniors Wealth chief executive Anne McGowan said the programs are suitable for financial institutions, banks, financial planners, law firms, aged care facilities, government departments, support services, or "anyone who helps seniors ...

ASIC to run rule over mortgage commissions

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). According to reports, the regulator will over the next fortnight ask the big four banks and eight other lenders to provide details on the various payments they make to brokers in a bid to assess how they ...

Qualitas adds two directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... financing is growing in the Australian real estate market. Qualitas group managing director Andrew Schwartz said: "The major banks are uniformly pulling back from their construction lending activities due to various regulatory constraints and some concerns ...

Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... VACF) offers access to around 260 investment-grade, Australian-issued bonds from corporations like Australia's four largest banks, overseas banks, other lending institutions and property trusts, for an annual management fee of 0.26%. The fund's top holdings ...

New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... BOJ is restricted to holding 50% of any ETFs, so other buyers will be required to fill the remainder. Brokers say regional banks and pension funds will be the biggest private sector buyers. The emergence of the funds, which has attracted complaints that ...

Australia tanks in global dividend index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... total this year, equivalent to around 12% of the country's annual total. "Australian investors are heavily dependent on banks and commodity companies, which together make up over two thirds of the country's equity income. The dramatic downturn in the ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... tsunami) in other economies. In as much as higher US rates would lift the greenback, it would be a positive for central banks trying to boost their economies or inflation or both such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). It ...

Mirae backs Asian consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... Indonesia. We're not playing the investment cycle in China, we're not buying the industrial companies, we're not buying the banks but we want to play the Chinese consumer," Chadha said. He added in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is strengthening ...

MyState appoints technology provider

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Financial services 110 out of 171 Australian authorised deposit taking Institutions (ADIs), including all four major Australian banks. Rubik's software includes financial planning software, mortgage software, and core banking systems. MyState is an ASX-listed ...