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Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... utilisation rate rising, despite some pull-back in capital expenditure, while forward orders were steady in positive territory for the month." Still, the latest survey found the business/consumer divide remains in play. "Solid outcomes from the NAB Monthly ...

CBA backs financial counselling

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... FCA is a federated body and the peak body for Australian financial counsellors, comprising members of each state and territory financial counselling association.

Infrastructure receives $75 billion boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... Government is expanding into equity and debt financing to "augment" its infrastructure spending, encouraging the state and territory governments not to rely heavily on Federal grants. The Treasurer allocated $75 billion to infrastructure, with transport ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... there's a bit of slowing in China - manufacturing and services sector PMI declined in April - they remain in expansion territory. Governor Lowe's statement about the Australian outlook says: "The Bank's forecasts for the Australian economy are little ...

Former BTFG manager joins Synchron

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... manager to help expand its national footprint. Adelaide-based Sheridan Wright is the new South Australia and Northern Territory state manager and prior to her appointment was the regional manager for BankSA for almost one-and-a-half years. Prior to that ...

NAB Wealth hire targets growth

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... join NAB Wealth as the new business growth manager of strategic alliances and growth for Queensland and the Northern Territory. Carton brings with him more than 30 years of experience in the wealth management industry, having also previously worked with ...

Housing affordability threatens super's future

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... owner-occupied housing within the pension assets test, and providing grants or low interest rate loans to state and territory governments for the construction of more affordable rental dwellings. Additionally, Eslake called on governments to reduce the ...

Future Fund cautious on risk and return

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... world there are still historically low interest rates. Some important centres in the world are more or less in negative territory. We do think on balance it's still a low return and risky environment. And given the fact we have a mandate to avoid excessive ...

Government to aid growth of social impact investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... intermediary aggregator would issue bonds to investors and finance large-scale affordable housing providers. State, territory and federal governments currently spend over $10 billion combined on public housing per year. Morrison said that the Turnbull ...

Fund administrator opens in Cayman Islands

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... ASX-listed fund administrator opened an office in the Cayman Islands this week after receiving licence approval from the territory's monetary authority. MainstreamBPO said its board sees operations in the Cayman Islands as key to its global ambitions ...