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Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
Consumers may not be good at predicting Wall Street's direction but they sure do impact overall economic growth. While renewed market volatility continue to put Wall Street to task, Main Street is taking the goings-on in America - fiscal and monetary ...

Industry fund signs super code, slashes premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
A $50 billion industry fund is the latest signatory to the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice, announcing it will drop TPD insurance premiums by an average of 20% at the same time. Signing up to the code from March 31, Sunsuper believes ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... their respective economies. Case in point: the European Central Bank. Speaking before the Watchers XIX Conference on the 14 March - before Trump's tariffs took effect and before Trump granted a temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil ...

Kapstream creates new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Kapstream Capital will soon launch its new investment strategy, including a second fund to sit alongside the fixed income manager's flagship Absolute Return Income Fund. Kapstream director of investment strategy James Bloom told Financial Standard the ...

Aussie asset consultant appoints new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
One of Australia's largest asset consultants will welcome a new chief executive in May following the departure of its current leader at the end of March. Frontier Advisors appointed Andrew Polson as its new chief executive, replacing Damian Moloney ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
And so it has come to pass. The US Federal Reserve did what was widely expected of it - it raised the fed funds rate target by 25 basis points to 1.5%-1.75% following its 20-21 March FOMC meeting. One sentence in the FOMC statement provides the underlying ...

Don't fear the inflation reaper: Capital Group

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
Capital Group investment director Andy Budden believes if you have the requisite experience with different economic cycles, a moderately inflationary environment can be good for equity investors. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, Budden discussed ...

Former Provident Capital MD still banned but allowed procedural fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
The Federal Court has upheld ASIC's five-year disqualification of the former managing director at Provident Capital but found the Administrative Appeals Tribunal denied the MD procedural fairness in its hearing. ASIC explained that on 20 February 2015 ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that the annual growth rate in Australian residential property prices continued to ease in the December 2017 quarter. The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property ...

Wealth firm appoints chief financial officer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
The financial services group formerly known as Austock is in the final stages of its rebrand, welcoming a new chief financial officer and formalising its new ASX code and website. Generation Development Group, the parent firm of Generation Life (formerly ...