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Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... want to be bigger. Each one is fighting for its vested interests and it has made the arguments put forward by all sides pretty weak," he said during an entertaining break-out session at the FSC Conference. "The people that claim for-profit is bad have ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... to nine months... probably as low as US65Ac by the end of the year". Adding that, this is "a helpful bearishness". I am pretty sure that Gov Glenn thinks as much and could maintain the downward pressure on the dollar-A by simply maintaining the line ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... maybe America's NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) has also gone down from the estimated 5.0%. I'm pretty sure the Fed will address this at the "Hole" when it talks about "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" on 27-29 August. ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... investors will get less and enjoy the ride worse," he said. "The only bright spot in our economy is housing and that story is pretty mature now. Australia has to get used to GDP growth with a two in front of it rather than with a three in front of it." ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... wealth management space by downsizing M&A teams and wrapping up dealer groups, as AMP did with Genesys. "I think it's a pretty strong reflection of their diminished level of appetite for the sector," he said. Advice scandals, he continued, have also ...

China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... there's lots of things to worry about in every country," Halmarick said. "I think the Chinese authorities have shown a pretty good handle on running that economy. The opening up of capital markets saw a gigantic rise in the equity market and now it's ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... manager Sean Fenton says that there are real risks that "the slowdown in [Chinese] growth becomes a hard landing. That has pretty serious consequences for Australia." But over the past few months an increasing number of fund managers have struck deals ...

Advisers should beware industry "frenemies"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... associations may be able to play a more active role in this space as well, and suggested ASIC could also participate. "We're pretty early in adapting to this, too," he noted. "It's going to keep evolving and we'll be learning from that experience and ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... headline CPI eased back to zero in June from 0.1% in May; the core rate dipped to 0.8% from 0.9% -- the UK economy is lookin' pretty good and is more likely to turn even prettier. This is because the same slow growth in prices -- along with an improving ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... never going to be the planner whose client says, 'Hey, where did my planner go?'" He added that his fee-disclosures are "pretty much monthly, and start at around $550 a month. I tell my clients my real value is as a coach, helping them to realise their ...