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Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... June quarter of last year to 4.9% in the second quarter of 2015 -- at the same time that inflation is rising - up 3.3% in July (the highest since August 2014) from 1% at the start of the year. This presents a dilemma for Bank Negara Malaysia in terms ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
Alpha Fund Managers has become the first Australian investor in a global asset manager's absolute return bond fund. Standard Life Investments' Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Trust aims to return cash plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...

Magellan adds infrastructure specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Magellan Financial Group has appointed a senior portfolio manager to its global infrastructure team. Stephen Mentzines joins the fund manager from ASX-listed Sydney Airport, where he was chief financial officer. Before that he was with Macquarie Group ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... slowing of late but... by not much. Data released yesterday support this: Retail sales increased by 10.5% in the year to July - not a great deal slower than June's and expectations' 10.6% rate but stronger than March (10.2%), April (10.0%) and May (10.1%) ...

New Calastone service automates distribution processing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... Hagger, said the firm is already benefiting from the new service. "We received automated tax statements in the first week of July - a big improvement on waiting for receipt by post or email," he said. "We've been able to load those statements directly ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... which by the by started the equity shopping spree overnight. Beijing reported tumbling exports - down 8.3% in the year to July - indicating weak global demand and diving imports - down 8.1% over the same period - suggesting weak domestic demand. Yippee-kay-yay! ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... market slack. Although it has come down from 10.5% in June and 12.2% in July 2014, the U-6 unemployment rate - 10.4% in July - far above the 8.8% average in 2004-2007 and is just on par with the highest rate recorded after the 2001 recession. Yes Virginia ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen believes proposed governance changes to superannuation fund boards ignore the lessons learnt from the HIH disaster. Speaking at the Financial Services Council annual conference, Bowen quoted Justice Neville Owen ...

Independent advice licensee under ASIC radar

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
A Queensland advice group has seen its Australian financial services licence questioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The regulator has imposed new licence conditions on Sentinel Private Wealth following concerns over ...