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Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... and core - remained above the BOE's 2% target. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to 3% in the year to September - the fastest rate since April 2012 - from 2.9% in the previous month. Core inflation (ex- energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) steadied at ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... there are good portents as well with the surveys reporting "Indian manufacturers raised their staffing levels, and at the fastest pace since October 2012..."with services employment in fact increasing at the fastest rate in 75 months." The Indian economy ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... (revised from 0.1% gain) in August. Year-on-year, average hourly earnings growth accelerated to 2.9% in September - the fastest since December last year - from 2.7% in the previous month. However, the jump in earnings might as well be distorted by the ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... in September from 52.8 in August on continued improvement in production and new orders and employment expanding at the fastest rate in nine months. Too, inflation is stirring: "cost pressures intensified, with input prices increasing at the quickest ...

Advisers flock to non-insto licensees

ALEX BURKE  |  SUNDAY, 1 OCT 2017
... implications for product distribution if this leads to a weakening in the power of established gatekeepers," the report said. The fastest-growing of these non-insto groups are Merit Wealth, GPS Wealth (recently acquired by Easton Investments), Dover ...

China industrial profits surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... previous month's 16.5% increase. Discounting the 31.5% surge over the Jan-Feb period, the August figure represents the fastest gain in profits since in four years (August 2013) - the year when China's GDP growth averaged around 7.7%. Not only that, the ...

Record turnout drives Managed Accounts Forum success

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... and offered via 128 investment managers. Dunnin said managed discretionary accounts (MDA) advice authorisation is the fastest growing segment of the adviser community, currently making up 60% of managed accounts. One-third of advisers that provide MDA ...

Managed accounts demand dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 17 SEP 2017
... Financial Standard Managed Accounts Best Practice Forum, said managed discretionary accounts (MDA) advice authorisation is the fastest growing segment of the adviser community, currently making up 60% of managed accounts. Rainmaker's research shows one-third ...

Investors happier with online broking: Investment Trends

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... investors, but also the more sophisticated, frequent trader," Guiamatsia said. "Mobile platform functionality is among the fastest growing drivers of switching intentions at the moment, with the proportion of switchers who cite this increasing three-fold ...

"Enough is enough": Women in Super launch national campaign

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... an average of 47%, or $85,000, less superannuation than men. More than 40% of older single women live in poverty - the fastest growing cohort of homeless people. Women are also more dependent on the Age Pension than men. Under the Women in Super plan ...