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Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... trade-off between inflation and growth continues to lessen. To me, the overriding theme in these "speaks" is the central bank heads' acknowledgment of strengthening growth momentum in their respective economies. In time, stronger growth would put upward ...

Family office giants agree to merger

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Two prominent Australian family office businesses have signed a conditional heads of agreement to combine operations. Subject to regulatory approvals, Mutual Trust and Myer Family Company (MFCo) will merge, with Myer Family Investments (MFI) owning ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... a case of one hand clapping for ScoMo for the details showed that employment increased by less than the expected 37,400 heads in April - expectations were for a 50,000 addition. Not only that, all of the gains in April employment was due to the 49,000 ...

Downsizing measures present advice opportunities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... that continues to change so taking advantage of the new measures should come easily to them. "I think they'll get their heads around this very quickly and clients will certainly seek advice around it and advisers will be very well placed to provide that ...

Stone and Chalk lends voice to start-ups by women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... a year ago [when I was in a different place]," she said. Other members of the panel were Fiona Boyd, chief executive of Heads over Heels and Stephanie Gillon, director of financial wellbeing at Flare HR. Boyd spoke about the power of networking and in ...

Industry funds in merger talks

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
Two industry superannuation funds have signed a heads of agreement, giving in principle support for a merger. Kinetic Super, which manages $3 billion in retirement savings and operates for the benefit of more than 270,000 members, and Sunsuper, which ...

Vanguard appoints three distribution heads

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Vanguard internally appointed three new heads of its distribution team. Matt Willis has become head of institutional, having previously been national sales manager - adviser, regional sales manager - northern, and business development manager. Rebecca ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... issued statements promising to respond "with force" to any new acts of aggression on Syria by the US. The hope is cooler heads will prevails but with unpredictable Trump's fingers on the launch code, anything can happen. Trump has recently sent an armada ...

Watermark appoints two sector heads

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
Watermark Funds Management is welcoming two experienced sector heads to its team. Ian Carmichael is coming over to Watermark from Platinum Asset Management in April as head of the consumer sector. At Platinum, he was team leader and investment analyst ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... approval of Congress or the Senate or both. The National People's Congress (NPC) merely rubber-stamps the Politburo's plans or heads will roll. Other PM Li likes include: CPI inflation of 3% this year (unchanged from 2016); budget deficit of 3.0% (unchanged ...