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Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...

Managed accounts forum unveils new format, adviser focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... strategist Wayne Lear said there are many benefits for advisers and their clients when using managed accounts. "Like with anything new, it takes a while for the mainstream to catch up. I wish more advisers used them, but it comes down to education for ...

Advice requires customisation: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... Financial Advisers chief executive Philip Kewin commented interpersonal skills - which are four times more critical to anything else - is what makes a trusted adviser. Adviser education and professionalisation initiatives, which as of late have taken ...

Former Ausbil managers start small-cap fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... companies benchmark," Waters said. Waters said the approach he and Prunty will take with QVG is entirely different to anything they've tried their hand at before, creating a model where they are 100% aligned with investors. "First and foremost, we're ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... confirmed that the first quarter slowdown in Australia's economic growth (to 1.7% from 2.4% in the December quarter) was anything but transitory. Although the business conditions index dipped by one point to a reading of +12 in May from +13 in the previous ...

New cash ETF for UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... income Anne Anderson told a media roundtable. While investors are lucky to receive a 0.20% return on term deposits - or if anything at all, they'd be penalised additionally should they decide to access their money, she added. The AQUA-listed cash ETF ...

Australians failing to act on increased retirement cost

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... decade has led to a rise in the amount required for a comfortable retirement, HSBC believes Australians are unlikely to do anything about ensuring they achieve it. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's Retirement Standard, which tracks ...

Advice industry must not rest on laurels: Diamantidis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... surrounded by guilt and procrastination, and so everything we're doing is associated with guilt and procrastination and, if anything, it's an afterthought," Diamantidis said. She implored advisers to say no to being part of the 'shoulds' and to work ...

Insurance giant partners to combine life and health

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... of insurance offering - one that will bring together health insurance, life insurance and wellbeing: there hasn't been anything like this available on the market in Australia before. Through this new alliance we are delighted to be providing GMHBA members ...

Budget for the wealthy: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Opposition leader Bill Shorten is rejecting claims Treasurer Scott Morrison's 2017-18 Budget is anything like a 'Labor Budget.' Shorten went on Twitter to say the Coalition's budget is "out of touch", as a Labor Budget wouldn't slash school funding ...