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What do future asset managers look like?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... JPMAM dictionary which assesses nuanced investment and economic language and provides "nearly instantaneous analysis of research reports notes, broker reports, filings and news to better anticipate things like company earnings revisions." He said JPMAM's ...

Funds SA portfolio manager leaves, team to expand

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
The $32 billion South Australian public sector fund is bidding farewell to a long-standing portfolio manager who looked after its alternatives portfolio. Clive Boyce managed Funds SA's private equity, infrastructure and opportunistic property investments ...

Chief economist update: Is China starting to slow down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
Be afraid, be very afraid. This appears to be the foreboding flashing on investors' dashboards following yesterday's 3.7% drubbing in the Shanghai composite index and the 0.5% depreciation in the Chinese yuan CNY6.9136 versus the greenback. ...

Bank cross-selling success declines: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... banks are capturing only about 30% of their customers' total spending on financial services products, according to new research. During the Royal Commission, the banks copped criticism for consistently referring existing customers to other product lines ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Just when we thought the times of central bank surprises were things of the past, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) brought them back. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of its October ...

The goals-based opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... in life are, revealing a significant opportunity for financial advisers using a goals-based approach. According to new research from Advice Intelligence, about 70% of Australians don't know what their goals in life are. Taking the time to work with your ...

Zurich launches new adviser portal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... the change was. "Although it has been significant, and the process has taken over 12 months from conception, feedback, research and design to build. This project is as much about making the operations of our advice partners easier, as it has been about ...

Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
The FTSE 100 index fell by 0.4% on September 13 - the day when the Bank of England (BOE) met and announced no change in monetary policy settings, keeping the bank rate at 0.75% (after the 25bps lift in August). While the BOE's move was widely expected ...

Chief economist update: That other Fed policy towards normalcy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
Latest data updates indicate that the US economic juggernaut continues to power on. The ISM non-manufacturing index shot up from 58.5 in August to a higher than expected 61.6 in September - its highest level on record. In addition, the ADP private sector ...

Half of Australians don't have a will

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... 10 million Australians haven't put together a will and run the risk of having their assets divided by the state, new research has found. Comparison website Finder found that of the 52% (9.9 million) who don't have a will yet, 4% say they don't want a ...