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Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Retail investors predict the trajectory of the local share market will be flat in 2019, but expect to be rewarded with modest returns, Investment Trends' latest survey shows. The 2195 investors canvassed in the monthly Investor Intentions Index ...

Advice dealer group, fintech align

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... the increased levels of administration and myriad of challenges that advisers are currently facing and Cashwerkz will be a big help in creating these efficiencies for our advice network," Elders general manager Tony Beaven said. Also commenting, Cashwerkz ...

CBA and Alipay to bring in Chinese shoppers

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... devices in a bid to attract Chinese shoppers who last year spent $10.9 billion in Australia. This makes CBA the first of the big four banks to accept Alipay in Australia, ahead of NAB which announced a pilot in November with an early 2019 roll out. Business ...

Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... quietly exits financial advice HSBC quietly called time on its Financial Advice arm in July, joining three of Australia's big four banks in spinning off their wealth management arms, with Commonwealth Bank announcing the demerger of Colonial First ...

Shareholders put NAB board in the hot seat

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
NAB executives were slammed for destroying shareholder value and for losing its lead as Australia's biggest bank by market capitalisation at its annual general meeting in Melbourne this morning. One shareholder during the question and answer session ...

Praemium renews Asgard contract

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
Praemium and Asgard Capital Management have extended their 11-year portfolio administration partnership for at least another three years. The current contract was due to expire in November 2019, however both businesses have agreed to extend the relationship ...

Grandfathered commissions: Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... 2019. The Australian Banking Association and many superannuation funds are already calling for a ban, and three of the four big banks have already vowed to phase them out. ABA chief executive Anna Bligh described the removal of such payments as "another ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... an aside, for the life of me I still couldn't understand why the Fed's reveal about being "data-dependent" became a big deal and a headline story. Surely, the Fed looks at the economic and financial market data and adjusts policy accordingly. ...

Bentham AM launches mFund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... have recently added the fund to a few platforms and received ratings." Quin says it's hard to put a dollar value on how big an opportunity mFunds is for the strategy, because they may overlap with other channels of raising capital. For example, a ...