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Chief economist update: Talking trade tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
After the US-China "my tariffs are broader and bigger than yours" tit-for-tat, it's time for talks to bargain, hassle, negotiate and compromise. It's been nearly a month since America and China have exchanged tariff threats amounting to US$50 billion ...

ASIC totally unprepared for advice reforms: Tynan

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan believes if the Royal Commission has made anything clear, it's that ASIC is in the dark about how to police financial advice misconduct. Speaking to Financial Standard, Tynan said the key ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
The Middle Kingdom's supremo, Chinese President Xi Jinpeng, sent equity markets on the up and up. Instead of talking tough and raising the ante on the brewing trade war with the US, Xi announced the opposite. In his speech at the Boao Forum for Asia ...

Technology for advisers by advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
An advice association is calling on independent and non-aligned financial advisers to get involved in designing and building better software for the delivery of goals-based advice. The Association of Goals Based Advice is inviting advisers to participate ...

Active managers must explain value better: Formica

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
The co-chief executive at a $484 billion (US$370bn) global asset manager believes the industry can take lessons from Shrek and vacuum manufacturers to improve storytelling and customer service. Speaking at a media lunch in Sydney last week, Janus Henderson ...

CPA Australia names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
CPA Australia appointed its new chief executive, succeeding Alex Malley's interim replacement and who will now leave the association. Andrew Hunter will commence leadership of CPA Australia on April 3, joining from Export Finance and Insurance Corporation ...

MyRetirement products too pricey for super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Delay in progress on the development of MyRetirement (CIPRs) products may not be due to a lack of initiative from superannuation funds but rather reluctance around expenditure. A running point of discussion at the recent Conference of Major Superannuation ...

Industry fund takes aim at asset manager diversity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
A $43 billion super fund is reviewing 70 of its local and offshore asset managers to determine where they stand on workplace gender diversity. The reason for this, HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey explained, is the fund is "committed to gender equality ...

High valuations drive insto investors to alternatives: BlackRock

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
2018 will see global institutional investors significantly ramping up allocations to alternatives and real assets in light of continuing low interest rates and high valuations for risk assets, according to BlackRock research. BlackRock's 2018 Global ...

Global wealth manager champions embattled digital currencies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
One of the world's largest independent wealth management firms will introduce a cryptocurrency app, despite recent price slumps and having labelled it "a major gamble". deVere Group announced the launch of deVere Crypto which will allow users to store ...