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Blue Sky adds executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has appointed a new chief financial officer. Justine Henwood joins the company from TriCare Aged Care, where she was also chief financial officer. She replaces Elizabeth Walker, who departed Blue Sky for personal reasons ...

Chief economist update: June RBA rate cut not a sure bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
The odds that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates to a new record low of 1.25% from the current all-time bottom of 1.5% when its Board meets on the first Tuesday of June intensified after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Rainmaker unveils the best wholesale managed funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
An Australian Unity fund has topped Rainmaker's analysis of top-performers in the wholesale managed funds sector over the last three years. The Australian Unity Retail Property Fund delivered 25.1% in the three years to March 2019, outstripping ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
Almost 200 exchange traded funds now trade in Australia, but not all have tickled investor appetite, with several plodding along like zombies, Rainmaker research shows. Opening Financial Standard 's annual Best Practice Forum on ETFs in Melbourne this ...

Chief economist update: Low unemployment, low wages growth conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
"Annual wages in seasonally adjusted terms grew 2.3% for the third quarter in a row. The main contributors to growth over the quarter were regularly scheduled wage rises in the health care and social assistance and education and training industries ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
In any war, there's bound to be those that are caught in the crossfire and others treated as collateral damage. The global stock market rout that developed as a result of the renewed "little squabble" (as Trump recently put it) between the US and ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... turned the slope of the yield curve (yield on 10-year Treasuries less 3-month T-bills) positive after it inverted in late March - a precursor of a US recession. The decline in 10-year US bond yields in recent days has begun to re-flatten the yield curve. ...

ANZ provides update on wealth sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
ANZ provided an update on its contractual arrangements with IOOF in relation to the sale of its OnePath Pensions and Investments business. The coupon rate ANZ pays on the debt note subscribed by IOOF reduced from 14.4% per annum to 2% per annum as of ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... expectations for a 8.4% gain and the fastest rate since September 2018. Annual growth in industrial production sped up to 8.5% in March - the biggest increase since July 2014 - versus 5.3% in February, beating expectations for a 5.9% increase. Fixed ...

Industry fund dips toes in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
An $8.6 billion industry superannuation fund is gearing up its first private equity play in almost half a decade, as it readies for an environment of lower returns. Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund chief investment officer Michael ...