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Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
No one expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise or lower the official cash rate from its current 1.5% when its board met on the 4 July, but only a few expected the Australian central bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
The just-released RBA Financial Aggregates report for May show that Australia's credit state of affairs continues. Total private sector credit growth inched up from 4.9% in the year to April to 5% last month. While this put a stop to the four straight ...

Sequoia announces acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
ASX-listed Sequoia Financial Group announced it will acquire Melbourne-based financial planning and accounting services firm InterPrac. Interprac "will add immediate scale, in particular to the SMSF Administration, Wealth Advisory and Investment Solutions ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
Yesterday's NAB Monthly Business Survey report confirmed that the first quarter slowdown in Australia's economic growth (to 1.7% from 2.4% in the December quarter) was anything but transitory. Although the business conditions index dipped by one point ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
America's non-farm payrolls report is called "The Mother of All Economic Reports" for nothing - it moves the US financial markets (and by extension, the global ones) up or down depending on the indications it presents when it's released. The US employment ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets again Tuesday next week and no one expects it to raise or lower interest rates after the 6 June soiree. The Australian central bank is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. It's caught between ...

Decimal expands superannuation network

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
ASX-listed Decimal Software has partnered with management consultancy firm Sequential to provide robo-advice solutions to superannuation fund clients. Under the memorandum of understanding, Decimal's Eqilize solution will offer superannuation providers ...

BT and Asgard add bond fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
An active bond fund has been added to the BT Wrap and Asgard platforms. Jamieson Coote Bonds' Active Bond Fund is the retail form of its wholesale Australian government bond strategy; it was recently rated as "recommended" by Lonsec. The fund is distributed ...

Insurers: beware the double-edged sword of genetic testing

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
While genome sequencing can provide numerous benefits for life insurance consumers, the fear of Gattaca-style "genetic discrimination" carries its own risks for the industry. Speaking at the 2017 Financial Services Council Life Insurance Conference ...

Productivity Commission proposes default super overhaul

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
The Productivity Commission has released its anticipated draft report on alternative default models in superannuation, looking at ways to introduce more competition in a system where members do not exercise fund choice. The commission has developed ...