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Advisers to return US$125m in fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... Advisors, Deutsche Bank Securities, LaSalle St. Investment Advisors and Woodbury Financial Services. One year ago, the American corporate regulator found that investment advisers selling mutual fund shares were placing their clients in a share class ...

Perpetual announces Fulbright scholar

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... through Centenary Foundation and delivered in partnership with the Australian Scholarship Foundation and the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. The Centenary Foundation is a Perpetual-managed ancillary trust to which people can make tax-free donations. ...

Chief economist update: Is the US about to join the global slowdown club?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... and are prone to revisions. The Fed's pause and the recovery in US equities (so far this year) should help entice American consumers back into the shops. That, or the US has just joined the global slowdown club.

QIC signs US investment partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
QIC is investing in a Boston university's parking systems as part of a 50-year partnership, building its American infrastructure presence. QIC Global Infrastructure has formed a new company MasParc and Mobility LLC that will take over the management ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
It appeared that not only us, Australians all, were celebrating Australia Day on January 26. Our American brethren were too... but for a different reason. The Dow rose by 0.7% on the day (January 25 in New York); the S&P 500 increased 0.8% and the Nasdaq ...

Willis Re refreshes executive lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... in the Australian business as the current Australian head of broking Warren Dresner moves to Miami to join the Latin American business in the third quarter. Willis Re Australia chief executive Cameron Green said: "The addition of John and Karl to the ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... will decide on the fee again, as is standard practice. CETF launched in Australia in June 2015 as a cross-listing of the American ETF through chess depository interests. The CSI 300 Index represents the largest and most liquid shares listed on the two ...

BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
BlackRock will partner with the global technology giant to develop a new retirement platform. Noting the responsibility for retirement planning now rests with millions of Americans, Microsoft has partnered with BlackRock, and the two global giants intend ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... chairman Jerome Powell understands this. In a joint interview with his predecessors - Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen - at the American Economic Association's annual meeting in Atlanta on 4 January 2019, Powell declared: "With the muted inflation readings ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... Average hourly earnings growth accelerated to 3.1% in the year to October from 2.8% in the previous month. No wonder American consumers are so happy. The Conference Board's consumer sentiment index rose to an 18-year high of 137.9 in October - same ...