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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
If anything, the continued increase in Australian job advertisements affirm the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) positive take on the domestic labour market. In its February Statement on Monetary Policy, the Australian central bank noted that, "A concentration ...

DomaCom raises $8m in pre-IPO capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Investment platform operator DomaCom plans to publicly list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in the third quarter of 2016 after collecting $8 million in a pre-IPO capital raising. DomaCom, owner of Australia's first regulated fractional property ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Some of the risks for the year ahead have been overstated and there are still plenty of opportunities to make good investments, according to Australian Unity Investments' joint venture asset managers. At a briefing in Sydney, Wingate Asset Management ...

Aussie economy rebalancing okay

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
Despite facing significant and persistent headwinds, Australia's domestic economy has been rebalancing better than is widely appreciated, according to a UBS chief economist. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney today ...

Core holdings will be lacklustre in 2016: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
The core of every investor's portfolio is going to be lacklustre in 2016, said State Street Global Advisers head of investments Kevin Anderson at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. The markets expert said investors need to make ...

Advisers under the Periscope

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
The annual Business Innovation and Social Advice Summit hosted by The Social Adviser is kicking off next week, with financial advisers given the option to follow select sessions through Periscope. Periscope is the new livestreaming video app launched ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
Wall Street is up - S&P 500 index closed 0.5% higher after dropping by as much as 1.5% overnight - as the US dollar plunged - Bloomberg US dollar index down 1.6% -- and oil prices soared by around 7% (despite the Department of Energy's report that crude ...

Aviva Investors appoints national account manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Aviva Investors has appointed a financial planning business director to its Australian wealth management business. Karl Linder joins as national account manager for Australasia. Based in Melbourne, he will report to head of business development Brett ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Illiquid and alternative asset strategies will only increase across the institutional investment market in 2016 according to latest reports from BlackRock and Willis Towers Watson. A BlackRock survey of more than 170 of the firm's largest institutional ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...