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Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... 2.13%. All these, because nuclear war didn't break out. The expected serious escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea didn't materialise. It still is as it was... hreats ("gift packages to the US") and counter-threats (sanctions) ...

Boutiques actively proving value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... study, titled 'The boutique advantage', was modelled on a similar study conducted by Affiliated Managers Group in the United States which delivered similar results. The analysis did not include multi-managers, index funds or listed investment compani ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Scary headlines over the prospect of an all-out war between North Korea and the United States (and its allies) continue to flood cyberspace. The latest of which is America's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley's remark that Kim Jong-un is "begging ...

Government opens doors to offshore investment vehicles

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... of assets. A study of global pension assets by Willis Towers Watson found that Australia was second only to the United States in its home equity bias," the draft legislation explained. When regulators in two "sufficiently equivalent jurisdictions" agree ...

Avoid the ETF trap: Bell Direct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... passive alone will not deliver the desired return outcomes," he added. While Australia continues to lag behind the United States in terms of ETF uptake, passive allocation by local investors show no signs of abating, reaching $30 billion in funds under ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... warned that: "The era of strategic patience is over. President Trump has made it clear that the patience of the United States and our allies in this region has run out and we want to see change. We will defeat any attack and we will meet any use of conventional ...

Aussie banks cleared of Wells Fargo-type conduct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... identify unlawful selling of retail banking products," he said. In late 2016, Wells Fargo was fined US$100 million by United States regulators after it was found that its staff had systematically and unlawfully opened as many as two million customer ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... (China-Specific Safeguards)' which specifies that: "If a product of the People's Republic of China is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities or under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause market disruption to the ...

MetLife restructures US and UK operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Global life insurer MetLife will cease to write individual insurance policies in the United States, having established a new firm to house its domestic retail life and annuity insurance divisions. MetLife received final regulatory approval from the ...

Family offices partner for major US acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... added: "Australian investors are confident because they are investing at a time when home ownership rates in the United States are falling and rentals are rising due to affordability issues plus the prospect of 35 year financing a major drawcard."