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Link Fund Solutions wins first client

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
Link Fund Solutions secured a mandate from a new small-cap boutique manager, marking the service provider's first client since rebranding. Link Fund Solutions has been appointed by QVG Capital to provide fund administration and custody services for ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... 63.1% from 62.9%. Perhaps more telling, the U-6 unemployment rate also declined sharply from 8.6% in August to 8.3% in September - the lowest rate since pre-GFC (8.3% in February 2007). The BLS defines the U-6 unemployment rate as: "Total unemployed ...

First Super appoints board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
First Super recently appointed a Djab Wurrung elder and indigenous leader as an independent director to its board. Joining the $2.6 billion fund's board from September is Tim Chatfield. He is currently the chief executive of a successful Aboriginal ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
They might be expanding at a slower rate but they're still expanding. The Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance of manufacturing and services indices both slowed in September from August but remained above the 50 expansion/contraction line. ...

Cromwell divests IOF, reopens fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
ASX-listed Cromwell Property Group will sell its entire stake in an office fund and reopen another fund to investors for $30 million in additional funding. Cromwell will sell down its 9.89% stake in the Investa Office Fund (IOF) to Investa Property ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
It was a ho-hum event, the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 3 October board meeting, that is. The Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged as widely expected. This takes to 14 the number of months the RBA has kept the official interest ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... see the figures from the Institute of Supply Management. The ISM manufacturing index jumped to a reading of 60.8 in September - the highest in 13 years (May 2004) - from 58.8 in August, buoyed by a rise in new orders, production and employment. Prices ...

BigTech: The next frontier for high-net-worth investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
High-net-worth individuals could soon turn to Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook for wealth management needs according to latest research from Capgemini. In its 2017 World Wealth Report the consulting firm found BigTech is casting a long shadow in wealth ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
While most of the world's biggest central banks have embraced uber-transparency, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears to still be subscribing to "fedspeak". It's still keeping Australians in the dark about its next policy movement. In its September  ...

Centuria buyout proposal leads to board stoush

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
Centuria's proposal to acquire an ASX-listed property manager was rejected, and Centuria responded by saying the manager's directors refused to engage. Earlier this month, Centuria announced the acquisition of a strategic interest in Propertylink Group ...