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Aussie super asset allocation "riskier": Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
UBS Asset Management's latest pension fund indicator report highlights the propensity of Australian superannuation funds to invest a substantial portion of retirement savings in "risker" assets such as equities. According to the report, the asset ...

Life insurance sector strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
The life insurance industry turned in a solid FY18, latest APRA statistics show. In the year to 30 June 2018, life insurers' total revenue stood at $37.6 billion, up 11.5% higher than the previous corresponding period. This was driven by net policy ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
It may still be early days but the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) "tweaking" of monetary appears to have done nothing significant for the yen and the Nikkei-225 so far. At the conclusion of its July 30-31 monetary policy meeting - where it kept current monetary ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Foreign companies continue to gain the lion's share of Australia's life insurance industry, with the recent sale of CommInsure and OnePath set to boost foreign ownership from less than half to 66%, KPMG research shows. According to the Life ...

BetaShares to launch three tech ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
The $5.7 billion manager will launch three ETFs that it says will give investors access to 'genuine, mega-growth' themes in the technology ecosystem. They will cover large Asian tech companies (ASIA), blockchain companies (BLOK) and the robotics ...

T. Rowe Price names new APAC distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
T. Rowe Price has announced a new lead for its Asia Pacific distribution business following the promotion of Scott Keller. Currently head of the Asia ex Japan institutional business, Nick Trueman has been appointed head of Global Investment Management ...

Weighing the lucrative expat lifestyle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... received the highest overall score - 71.58% - when ranked on lifestyle, career, financial and family. It just beat out Japan (71.22) and the Netherlands (71.17). "Even though Singapore's cost of living is quite high (27% of expats reported spending more ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ kills off specs (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
Just as it was in late 2017/early 2018, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) once more hosed down recent speculations of a tweak in monetary policy towards an (early) exit. Sure, the Japanese central bank tweaked policy, but in the opposite direction. At the conclusion ...

Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
Financial markets could have a brand new worry (or not) depending on the outcome of the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy meeting that's due to conclude this day. The 30-31 July meeting is particularly significant given last week's flare-up ...

Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
The big news overnight comes courtesy of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) or rather speculations (again) that it's discussing possible changes to its looser-than-loose monetary policy. There are so many combinations and permutations as to what the BOJ would ...