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Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Paragon hires distribution head from Challenger

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
Melbourne-based hedge fund manager Paragon Funds Management has appointed a new head of distribution. David Livera joins Paragon from Challenger, where he was a senior business development manager. Prior to that, he was a national key account manager ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... global business expectations (see yesterday's report), the Conference Board's consumer confidence survey cut off on 16 March -- one week before the Obamacare repeal/replace failed. There might be some give back on the consumer confidence reading next ...

Fund manager appoints managing director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
A diversified Australian and South-East Asian fund manager boosted its leadership team with the appointment of a managing director, head of funds and wealth management. Former Certitude Global Investments chief executive Craig Mowll joined Aura Funds ...

Kristin's correct call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
The Bank of England's (BOE) March decision to keep policy settings unchanged may still prove to be correct, but the recent flow of economic data continue to vindicate MPC-member Kristin Forbes' dissent - she considered it appropriate to raise interest ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
With one political uncertainty removed - last week's Dutch elections where Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) defeated the far-right leader Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection ...

Record adviser numbers attend Sydney ABDO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
The Financial Standard Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO) Investment Manager Roadshow hit Sydney today, with more than 500 financial advisers and industry professionals registering for the annual event. Held at Shangri-La Hotel, Pyrford International strategic ...

Azimut partners with Colonial, launches funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
AZ Sestante, a subsidiary of Italian wealth management firm Azimut Holdings, recently entered the Australian market by launching three new funds on the Colonial First State platform. The partnership produced three diversified multi-manager funds that ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
Japan's latest trade stat indicates that the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) optimism, noted in its March monetary policy statement that, "Exports are expected to follow a moderate increasing trend on the back of an improvement in overseas economies" is perhaps ...

RBNZ on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has a positive view of the international economy - "Macroeconomic indicators in advanced economies have been positive over the past two months" -inflation - "Global headline inflation has increased... Core inflation ...