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Banks face wealth management challenges

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
The big four banks' wealth businesses benefitted from a lower Australian dollar and a strong performance in investment markets for most of the year but generating acceptable return on equity (ROE) remains a challenge. Presenting EY's analysis of Australian ...

Macquarie set to pay $14m to advice clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... well as the favourable impact of foreign exchange movements." The group estimates that a 10% movement in the Australian dollar will have approximately a 7% positive impact on the full year profit.

Global strategy drives BTIM results

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... million, compared to $121.8 million in 2014. "Net inflows of $5.7 billion, investment outperformance and a lower Australian dollar all contributed to an increase in funds under management (FUM) of $12 billion to $78.4 billion, as at 30 September 2015," ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... benefit Australia. "Once the Fed does start lifting interest rates we could see some renewed weakness in the Australian dollar below $US0.70," she says, and explains that this will continue to support growth in those sectors of the Australian economy ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... reporting slowing growth and one contracting - point to longer patience on lift-off. The upward pressure on the Australian dollar - which has already begun - would continue to mount sans an RBA counter-policy move, i.e, a rate cut. The A$ dropped below ...

ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... two months the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index lost 10.7% while the MSCI All Countries World Index lost 5.7% in Australian dollar terms. Despite this inflows continued to be strongly positive, meaning that the loss of funds from market movements was almost ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... sustained by international equities that returned 28% in the year to August 2015 buoyed by the 31% drop in the Australian Dollar against the US dollar. That return from the SelectingSuper international equities index is significantly below the benchmark ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... Australian PMI for improving conditions in September were stronger local orders and exports, due to the lower Australian dollar." (AiG) To make it three for three, Australian job vacancies jumped by 10.2% to 160,900 in the year to the August quarter. ...

ETF flows up despite market underperformance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... mover from a funds flow perspective was the iShares Global 100 AUD Hedged which more than doubled in size as the Australian dollar reached its recent lows against the US dollar.

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... exposures and at the moment we have started to hedge them. We are also monitoring closely the sharp drop of the Australian dollar," Armitage says. The veterans of life stages For seven years now, BT Financial Group has split its superannuation membership ...