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Not as good as the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
It's not as good as it looks. The second biggest Australian trade surplus on record, that is. Us, Australians all, should be rejoicing at the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report that the country's international trade surplus widened by 138% ...

Praemium details former chief executive's sacking

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Praemium's chair has detailed the difficulties he and the board faced in the lead up to sacking chief executive Michael Ohanessian. The situation came to a head in January 2017, when Ohanessian presented a lengthy document to chair Greg Camm refusing ...

Financial Standard wins prestigious award

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Financial Standard journalist Alex Burke has been honoured for a series of feature articles on retirement income, winning an award at the Australian Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence. Burke was judged winner of the Markets and Investment category ...

Super insurance maintains active pricing: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
About one-fifth of superannuation funds changed insurance rates or cover in the final quarter of 2016, latest Rainmaker research shows. The just-released Superannuation Benchmarking Report details how these super funds changed insurance rates or cover ...

China manufacturing expansion gains and slows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
China's official manufacturing PMI measure showed the index improving for the second straight month to 51.8 in March and the eight consecutive month that the index had been above the 50 expansion/contraction line. This is better than market expectations ...

ANZ updates position on wealth business

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott has confirmed the bank is not getting out of wealth entirely and is seeking a partnership where products would be manufactured for the business. Elliott said ANZ's wealth management business is not putting a "for sale" ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
It'll be interesting to be a fly on the wall of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) boardroom today when Governor Philip Lowe and his team deliberate on what to do with the country's monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the Australian ...

Industry model costing good advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
The proposed industry funding model to help ASIC regulate poor advisers is at the cost of those behaving professionally and ethically, according to the Association of Financial Advisers. The ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill, which details an ...

Perennial Value launches microcap strategy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
Australian equities manager Perennial Value is hoping to take advantage of strong returns from the sub $500 million companies market with the launch of a new microcap strategy. The Perennial Value Microcap Opportunities Trust will invest in a portfolio ...

Westpac minimises disruption with disruption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
Appealing to the younger members of its customer base, Westpac launched an innovative tool enabling access to its online banking features via social messaging apps and SMS. The bank introduced the Westpac Keyboard, a new iOS keyboard, which allows customers ...