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Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
The S&P 500 index closed at 2896.74 points at the end of last night's trading activity on Wall Street. Yes, Virginia, it's a new record high! Yippee-kay-yay and hallelujah! This is good for stock markets around the world, including Australia. ...

Global asset manager launches smart beta indices

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... persistent, and empirical (RIPE). SMARTER stands for: Systematic, multifactor, active measures, resilient, transparent, ESG Inside, and Ripe Factors (SMARTER). The quant team has incorporated ESG throughout the SMARTER Beta range, using data from Sustainalystics. ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... landmark third party bank-insurer strategic alliances." Over the last five years, the proportion of life insurance written inside superannuation has increased - this trend may reverse in the next five years if the changes to default insurance in superannuation ...

Fees for no service remediation passes $250 million

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... sector - the result being this week's announcement of $70 million in Federal Government funding to introduce ASIC staff inside financial institutions.

Are SMSF investors too conservative?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... to underperform APRA-regulated funds says more about SMSF asset allocation then it does for where individual members fit inside Australia's $2.6 trillion super system. Rainmaker Information analysis of APRA, ATO and SMSF Association data suggests, on ...

ASIC staff to investigate institutions from the inside

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
The corporate regulator will be gifted enhanced enforcement powers via funding from the Federal Government, a sizeable chunk of which will be used to embed staff within the big four banks and AMP. The Federal Government announced it is injecting a further ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside the box. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the June quarter ...

Infrastructure manager turns up the heat

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... Kvitebjorn Varme AS, the owner and operator of the district heating network covering Tromso - the largest Norwegian urban area inside the Arctic Circle. Whitehelm said the deal was made on behalf of a consortium of institutional investors, and added ...

ASIC not to blame for trust deficit: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... great admiration at the work of ASIC." Asked by committee member Trevor Evans to expand on his belief that the culture inside ASIC doesn't need to change, Shipton said cultures inside any organisations must be actively worked on. Shipton said ASIC staff ...

BTFG adviser distribution team reshuffles

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... opportunity within Westpac. A BTFG spokesperson confirmed the move this morning and said the group is proposing further changes inside its adviser distribution function which sits within the platforms and investments business. "As part of these changes ...