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Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... quickly as it corrected - selling and then buying on rising inflation expectations. The S&P 500 index closed 4.3% up at the close of the trading week ending 16 February, partly reversing the previous week's 5.2% loss but more than enough to take its ...

NAB appoints new regional advice GM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
NAB Financial Planning appointed a new general manager for South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Adrian De Silva joined NAB in January from Beyond Bank Australia, where he was national manager wealth management and national ...

Fortnum recruits former Centric Wealth chief

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
Fortnum Private Wealth is welcoming a former chief executive of Centric Wealth to its ranks. Glen Castensen joins in an executive position reporting directly to Fortnum managing director Neil Younger. He was most recently a financial services consultant ...

SMSF Association names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
The SMSF Association will welcome a new chairperson at the close of its 2018 National Conference. Replacing former Count Financial managing director Andrew Gale, Professor Deborah Ralston will assume the position. Ralston joined the SMSFA board in July ...

Planners vital to closing super gap: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
Latest research from Roy Morgan suggests there is greater potential for the superannuation gap to be closed if women were more inclined to engage a financial planner. According to a recent survey of more than 50,000 consumers, 8.3% of females purchase ...

SEC cracks down on fee transparency

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it will crackdown on financial product providers' fee disclosures the year ahead in a bid to protect mum and dad investors. The SEC made it clear that one of its main priorities this year is ...

Colonial First State awards $385m mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Colonial First State has awarded a $385 million global real estate securities mandate to a global asset management firm. Deutsche Asset Management will oversee the strategy, headed up by the firm's global real estate securities team. The team is led ...

Super property trust appoints GM

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
The Industry Superannuation Property Trust is welcoming a general manager of new business this week. Joining the $15 billion property investment trust is Karsten Simpson. Most recently he was general manager - structuring capital transactions, and the ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Whitehelm Capital's advisory arm is the new investment consultant for a $900 million industry superannuation fund which dedicates itself to education and related sectors. Combined Super appointed Whitehelm Advisers as its new investment consultant in ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Now we've seen it all - the "most hated bull market in history" and the "most widely-expected correction." To wax pedantic about this, the Dow and the S&P 500's big drop on the 5 February 2018 does not even fit the technical definition of a correction ...