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Every American's turning optimist

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index continues to run of rising optimism in the United States following Trump's triumph at the November 2016 US presidential polls. The index - designed by the Investor's Business Daily (IBD) and TechnoMetrica Institute ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
The coming year will see economic momentum build in the US, but investors should not rely solely on US assets according to J.P. Morgan global market strategist Kerry Craig. Speaking at a media roundtable yesterday, Craig advised that investors should ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
Out with defensives, in with risks and cyclicals. The year 2017 started where 2016 left off - good tidings and cheers on the global economy and risk appetites. If there are lessons that you, I and Irene should learn over the year just passed, it is ...

Financial Standard appoints editor, unveils new website

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
Financial Standard will welcome a new editor in the New Year, the first of several changes at the wealth management publication. Deputy editor Darren Snyder will step into the top role on 3 January, succeeding Mark Smith who departed in October. Coinciding ...

Investment managers must find purpose, not performance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
Investment managers need to move away from the current culture of performance-driven investing towards one that is purpose-driven. This is the key theme of the latest insight from State Street's independent think-tank, the Centre for Applied Research ...

Super funds must do better digitally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
Superannuation funds need to do more digitally in order to attract and retain members, according to Decimal chief executive Nic Pollock. Pollock said the key challenge in the industry at present is the issue of member retention; with an increasing number ...

Decimal enters new super partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Decimal has entered into a commercial agreement with a superannuation business. The software provider will deliver the super business with access to its platform as part of a paid test and learn exercise and will involve implementing a white-label solution ...

Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... different recent developments: Donald Trump's election and the rise of Tinder sex bots. On the former, he noted that nearly every poll predicting the 2016 election outcome "got it wrong" except one: the LA Times/USC Daybreak poll. "They predicted Trump ...

Markets fear Trump effect on global trade

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Beyond the initial market sell-off, investors might have a bigger worry ahead if US President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his global trade platform. The Republican presidential nominee is heading for the White House after securing the most votes ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Donald Trump - the "misogynist", the "sexual predator", the "racist", the "lying cheat", the "clown", the "narcissist", "the most hated man in America" is now President-elect of America. No one, or so it seems, like him. Not the media - mainstream and ...