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The BOE's got no problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... policy. To this day, the BOE, like all others (including the Fed), nominates Trump's protectionist policy as one of the major sources of risk to its optimistic forecasts but unlike its peers, it also has to deal with the potential fall-out from Brexit. ...

Equity Trustees net profit up 28pct, execs get bonuses

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Equity Trustees' top executives took home the highest possible short-term incentives, as the company swelled net profits by 28%. It paid its five top executives and the managing director about 99% of the maximum short-term opportunity awarded to ...

Discriminatory bank regulation hits super savings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
... Financial Claims Scheme (FCS) and thereby treated as stable. This is further compounded by the Net Stable Funding Ratio and the Major Bank Levy. "Because unstable deposits require banks to hold more low-yielding liquid assets than in the case of stable ...

AI to transform financial services: Deloitte

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... According to Deloitte and the World Economic Forum, AI will radically change front and back-office operations, and create major shifts in the structure and regulation of financial markets. The report identified nine key findings about how AI is changing ...

JPMorgan fund excludes tobacco, cuts fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... the nation is transitioning from an industrial and credit-led growth towards more of a consumption-led growth. "This is a major transition. A consequence is growth will slow [and] it has clear economic and market implications as the Chinese economy rebalances," ...

HUB24 lifts targets

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... represent an acceleration of existing forces at play on the post FOFA environment," it said. "These include three out of four major banks exiting wealth, pressure being applied to grandfathered commission structures and traditional vertical integration ...

LIT serves up junk bonds to SMSFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... Bommi said the risk is managed well, with the team looking for higher-quality bonds, ideally rated BB or B by the three major rating houses. "Junk bonds isn't really a suitable label, after all, these are bonds with big global companies like Mattel ...

CFA adds AI and fintech to curriculum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... problems to support the curriculum will be introduced. Overall, the 2019 CFA curriculum update includes 10 new readings and major revisions to 18 existing readings. CFA Institute managing director of credentialing Stephen Horan said: "The integration ...

Swiss asset manager eyes Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... $285 billion Canadian real asset manager Brookfield, where he ran the European renewable energy team. He says one of the major changes that have happened in clean energy is that technology costs have come down significantly in the last five years. "It ...

SMSFA addresses policy hurdles

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... report, the ASIC SMSF advice report, budget recommendations on SMSF audits, and the FASEA reforms, to name but a few of the major challenges that are on our table at the moment." SMSFA chair Deborah Ralston noted the association was "disappointed" with ...