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Daily economic update

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) voted 8-1 to keep interest rates unchanged for the seventh month in a row. The minutes of the MPC March meeting revealed that the almost unanimous decision to keep interest rates steady at 4.5 per ...

REST on the hunt for new CEO

Award winning fund Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST) is searching for a new chief executive with long time CEO Neil Cochrane planning to step down in August. Cochrane says that, having been with the fund for five years, the fund needs a new ...

Daily economic update

Business investment continues to drive the Australian economy forward. This is established by today's Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report showing that real capital spending increased by a much larger-than-expected 9.2 per cent in the December ...

New survey debunks age-old investor behaviour views

A recent survey of investor behaviour is debunking age-old views on how men and women invest, and will potentially drive the popularity of gender-specific or lifecycle type managed funds. BT Financial Group and The University of Western Australia (UWA) ...

Daily economic update

Today's lower than expected increase in Australian employment gives credence to yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank not to alter current monetary policy settings. The Australian labour market added a mere 1,800 jobs in January. Expectations were ...

Daily Economic Update

Germany's Ifo business confidence index rose to 99.6 in December from 97.8 in the previous month. This is the highest level since August 2000, with both the current situation and expectation components both rising. Increased exports (due to the 12 per ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept domestic monetary policy unchanged following its Board meeting last week. The RBA last raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent in March. Since then, indications that growth ...

Daily Economic Update

Consistent with the improving trend in job advertisements reported by the ANZ last Monday, Australian employment rose in November following two consecutive months of decline. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that employment rose by 28,000 ...

Vision return to Russell

Vision Super has reappointed Russell Investment Group (Russell) to the role of actuarial and benefits consultant, after a competitive tender brought them back for more. The reappointment of Russell's actuarial team came at the end of a competitive tender ...

DSTi risk solution protects another manager

IAG Asst management has signed onto the DST International (DSTi) risk management program. After a long selection process, IAG reportedly chose DSTi's program to meet their specific risk management and value risk needs. DSTi chief executive officer for ...