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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... previous month's 41.7 reading. Among the survey's individual components declines were recorded in "willingness to buy durable goods (down 1.9 points to 39.8 in April) - deflation in action - "employment" (down 1.1 points to 42.8) and "overall livelihood" ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... the survey all remained lacklustre during April. Output growth slowed to marginal rates at both consumer and intermediate goods producers, while the investment goods sector stagnated."

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... Increases in sales of footwear and personal accessory (up 1.1%), food (up 0.6%), "other retailing" (up 0.4%) and household goods (up 0.1%) were recorded in March. These were partly offset by a 0.5% fall in sales in department stores. Cafes, restaurants ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... of total revenue) increased the most with a 10.5% gain. Over the same period, payroll taxes and taxes on the provision of goods and services increased by 3.4% and 0.5%, respectively. The increase in total revenue collected was limited by a 26.5% drop ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... January's 1.9% jump in production. Still, this was more than market expectations for a 0.7% fall. Output of non-durable consumer goods fell by 1.8% in February, energy by 1.2%, durable consumer goods by 0.4% and capital goods by 0.3%. Year-on-year, industrial ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... billion shortfall and disappointing consensus expectations for an improvement to a A$2.5 billion trade gap. Exports, or goods and services credits, fell by 1.0% over the month led by a 20% drop in "non-monetary gold" shipments. Exports of rural goods ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... by 26.6% and 0.9%, respectively. Imports increased by 2.2% in the year to February led by increased purchases of capital goods (5.6%), non-oil products (4.8%) and intermediate goods (2.5%). South Korea consumer confidence Consumer confidence among South ...

Financial services to be a greater part of "economic narrative"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... of Monetary Policy highlighting a substantial uptick in both household and business services employment over 2015 while goods-related employment remained sluggish. According to the RBA, this is partly what explains the fact that employment growth in ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... the target in around two years' time. The drags from energy and utility prices, and from the prices of imported non-energy goods and services, are expected to diminish, in the absence of further downside shocks. Also, the MPC's judgement is that, were ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... to negatively impact the US economy as evidenced by the latest ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing surveys, durable goods orders, and just last night, the higher-than-expected 285K increase in jobless claims and the sharper-than-predicted 2.9% fall ...

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Netwealth reports record $36bn FUM in Q1

MATTHEW WAI
Netwealth observed record growth over the first quarter of the financial year, with both funds under administration and funds under management increasing by $3.4 billion and $2.4 billion, respectively.

First Sentier lists active ETF

ELIZA BAVIN
First Sentier has made the First Sentier Global Listed Infrastructure Fund (Hedged) Active ETF available to Australian advisers and investors.

Janus Henderson launches global equities active ETF

VINNY VUCAGO
Janus Henderson Investors has launched a global equities strategy designed to combine a broad market exposure with research-driven stock selection.

SILC partners with Totality to give clients brokage access

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
Wholesale trustee The SILC Group (SILC) has partnered with brokerage firm Totality to provide its equity fund manager clients with access to institutional-grade prime brokerage services.

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