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Super fund appoints new asset consultant

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
A $30 billion super fund has appointed an asset consultant, replacing Willis Towers Watson. ESSSuper, the Melbourne-based fund for Victorian emergency services and state employees, has announced the appointment of Frontier Advisers as asset consultant. ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
"Such a feelin's comin' over me There is wonder in most everything I see..." - Karen Carpenter Not long now - just less than a percentage away (0.8% to be exact) - and the All Ordinaries index would top the all-time high of 6,853.57 points it ...

Beware tech firms in financial services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a warning about large technology companies entering financial services. The BIS said the entry of big tech into financial services presents new risks - not least of all, the competition these companies ...

Cashwerkz, Praemium ink deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
Financial advisers using Praemium's integrated managed accounts offering can now access the Cashwerkz platform. The two firms have entered a "data feed partnership" that will allow advisers using Praemium to access Cashwerkz's marketplace offering from ...

Chief economist update: June RBA rate cut not a sure bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
The odds that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates to a new record low of 1.25% from the current all-time bottom of 1.5% when its Board meets on the first Tuesday of June intensified after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
The US Federal Reserve just concluded its April 30 - May 1 FOMC meeting and decided it best to do nothing but reaffirm its policy of patience, as you, I and Irene expected. "Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum ...

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
The stats are out and it reveals that Australian consumer price inflation has softened... big time. There's no other option for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates soon and twice. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) ...

Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
The last time we heard some sort of policy guidance from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) was in early February this year when governor Haruhiko Kuroda was quoted as saying that: "If (currency moves) are having an impact on the economy and prices, and if we ...

Morgan Stanley extends platform partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is transitioning 2,500 new portfolios to an independent platform, building on their existing relationship. In a new agreement, MS Wealth Management will add 2,500 portfolios with international assets to Praemium's platform ...

Chief economist update: Japan should raise taxes another day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
The just-released "Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on March 14 and 15, 2019" contained the same optimism that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) had been telling us and itself for as long as I can remember. The same rose-tinted outlook on growth. ...