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FASEA reveals exam dates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... advisers will have a further eight opportunities to meet the new requirements, with exams set to take place in September and December this year, and in February, April, June, August, October and December of 2020. FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... consider performance. Further, Australian ETFs' buy sell spreads and manager expense ratios have fallen in the six years to December 2018, which Dyall said stem from the network effect of more advisers using them. "I want to emphasise that these so-called ...

Chief economist update: Low unemployment, low wages growth conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... bonuses - grew by 2.3% in the year to the March quarter - the same annual rate of growth recorded in the September and December quarters of 2018. Yes, Virginia - wage growth would have been weaker if not for the "regularly scheduled wage rises." Nothing ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... Tankan survey of confidence among the country's big manufacturers dropped by seven points - the biggest decline since December 2012 - to a two-year low reading of 12 in the March quarter from 19 in the December 2018 quarter. According to a BOJ official ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... it. The CME FedWatch Tool shows the probability that the fed funds rate would remain at 2.25%-2.50% at the Fed's December 2019 FOMC meeting has dropped to 26.1% from 45.8% a week ago (before the tariff flare-up). The odds for a 25 bps rate reduction ...

CBA remediation bill crosses $2bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... same time, CBA also announced the retirement of a non-executive director from its board. David Higgins will retire on 31 December 2019 after five years. He has chaired the remuneration committee and served on the risk committee. CBA chair Catherine Livingstone ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... while manufacturing activity has rebounded into expansion territory in March and April this year after contracting in December, January and February. Not only that, latest updates show other Chinese domestic macro indicators have improved. Retail sales ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... GDP data paints a softer picture of the economy than do the labour market data. GDP rose by just 0.2 per cent in the December quarter to be 2.3 per cent higher over 2018", the Australian central bank is more optimistic this time, stressing: "The central ...

Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... GDP increased by 0.4% in the March 2019 quarter - better than market expectations for a 0.3% gain - from 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter and 0.1% in the three-months ended September 2018. This brought the region's annual growth rate to 1.2%, the ...

Industry fund awards group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... relationship with AIA Australia. Rest entered a Memorandum of Understanding with TAL to provide life insurance from 1 December 2019. TAL will replace AIA Australia, which began providing life insurance to Rest members in 2004. Rest chief executive Vicki ...