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Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! US consumers must be partying like it's the year 2000 for they have not been this optimistic since December of that year. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index surged to a reading of 125.6 in March from 116.1 in the previous ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
With one political uncertainty removed - last week's Dutch elections where Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) defeated the far-right leader Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection ...

BTFG announces giant Panorama leap

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
BT Financial Group will merge 12 superannuation funds into one as part of the rollout of its $630 million Panorama platform and in a major update of the wealth management business. Announced to the market this morning, BTFG will also move from four ...

ASIC permanently bans Queensland adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
The Australian and Securities and Investment Commission permanently banned a former Anne Street Partners financial planner for engaging in deliberate acts of dishonesty. Daniel Peter Logan, formerly of Brisbane, failed to comply with financial services ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update on residential property prices brought home the Reserve Bank of Australia's current concerns and noted in its March monetary policy statement: "Conditions in the housing market vary considerably around ...

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
In its 9 March statement, the European Central Bank (ECB) stated that, "A very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
There's "One Direction (1D)" - the English-Irish pop music boy band -- and there's the Bank of England (BOE). Like the big event of March - the US Federal Reserve lifted the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% - 1.0% at its 15-16 March FOMC meeting ...

Legg Mason bond funds receive Zenith tick

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
Three Legg Mason bond funds were recently rated positively by Zenith. Legg Mason's Western Asset Global Bond Fund and Western Asset Macro Opportunities Fund were both given a 'Recommended' rating, while the Legg Mason Brandywine Opportunistic Fixed ...

MDA provider upgrades offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
A managed discretionary account provider is partnering with a fintech to deliver a new cloud-based solution to financial advisers. managedaccounts.com.au will work with Melbourne-based CapitalRoad to upgrade its user interface and middle office requirements ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
People's Bank of China (PBOC) deputy governor Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in ...