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Financial Standard launches the Investment Leadership Awards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
This week Financial Standard launches its first Investment Leadership Awards, which recognise the investment strategies that best showcase what investors look for in an investment manager. Distinguishing it from existing fund manager awards, Financial ...

Court shuts down listed investment manager lawsuit

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
The Supreme Court of Victoria has dismissed an application from a listed investment manager who was attempting to restraint Molopo Energy from acquiring further shares in a Florida oil and gas exploration company. Keybridge Capital had commenced proceedings ...

ASX pioneers blockchain technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
The world will look on "carefully" as the ASX becomes the first major stock exchange to implement distributed ledger technology (DLT) across its trading platform, says deputy chief executive Peter Hiom. In announcing it will replace its trades settlement ...

Fox joins Tribeca Financial board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
Former Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox has joined the board of a Melbourne-based advice firm. Fox joins Tribeca Financial as a non-executive chair to help lead the firm's next growth phase. Tribeca Financial chief executive ...

AIA announces two-year fee waiver

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
AIA Australia announced it is waiving fees on certain polices that can help improve lapse rates. The life insurer is waiving the policy fee for the first two years of new Priority Protection members. If applicable, it will also waive the AIA Vitality ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
There's no denying that growth in most major economies stepped up in the third quarter of this year but if current indications are on the ball, the fourth quarter will be better. Year-on-year GDP growth rates in the US, the Eurozone, Japan, the UK and ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
"You can't make people be confident, I certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

Powell power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
There wasn't really anything earth-shattering in US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress overnight where she discussed 'The Current Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy'. Growth is gaining ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
Quo vadis inflation? The minutes of the Fed's 31 October - 1 November FOMC meeting revealed Yellen & Co's continued confusion over the unresponsiveness of consumer price inflation to undeniably solid growth in the economy. According to the minutes ...

HESTA announces life insurance facelift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
Industry superannuation fund HESTA is enhancing its life insurance offer, including a shift to age-based pricing that will be effective 1 March 2018. Among the changes, HESTA has also bolstered its income protection cover to include a lump sum provision ...