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CFS sets focus on financial literacy with Wealth IQ

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
Colonial First State (CFS) has launched a digital tool to assist financial advisers in increasing the financial literacy of their clients. Wealth IQ was designed to help advisers explain complex financial planning and investment concepts to their clients ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Australia's superannuation system is estimated to reach more than $9.5 trillion in the next 20 years and the role of super funds as capital stewards will remain large, according to industry professionals. Capital stewardship is continually redefined ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... so-called core-core inflation rate (which excludes food and energy) - slowed to plus 0.3% from 0.4% in June. The BOJ and the Abe government need to do more to short-circuit this deflationary mindset. This is because falling prices spawn expectations ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... trillion. Hopefully that's enough to buy the Japanese economy enough time to get its act together in terms of the third arrow of Abe which is the structural reform. So my view is that the Japanese will be forced down this track, that's probably my best ...

BlackRock publishes staff gender split

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has become the latest to join a handful of firms publishing the gender split of their staff as well as what proportion of women hold senior management roles. The move comes amid growing concerns about the ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... new and direct spending and more (or is it less?), this ¥7.5 trillion would be spread over the next two years. The BOJ and Abe move was not because of the economy but Brexit. "Against the backdrop of the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... in 1996 and ever since have been stuck sub this level. As an attempt to stimulate the Japanese economy Prime Minister Shino Abe last week announced a A$120 billion maglev fast rail infrastructure project.

Walsh Bay Partners hires investment associate from First State Super

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
Walsh Bay Partners has appointed a new senior investment associate. Timothy Peters joins Walsh Bay Partners from First State Super, where he was a senior investment analyst. Prior to that, he was a research manager at Brookvine, a research analyst at ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... Suga said in an interview Saturday in Tokyo. Pressure for a stimulus package has stepped up following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide Upper House election victory two weeks ago. The landslide win was the first election with the newly lowered voting ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... opposition Democratic Party won 32 seats. While the elections centred on the issue of constitution reform, Prime Minister Abe declared in his victory speech that, "We have to accelerate Abenomics to meet the public's expectations". US labor market conditions ...