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Investment boutique makes PIMCO hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... the end of 2019. Ryan has also worked at AustralianSuper as a senior analyst, at Australian National University as a statistics lecturer, and AMP Capital and Commonwealth Bank in quantitative strategy. The newly created research team will support portfolio ...

Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... month and the de-escalation of tensions between the US and Iran. All good but even better is the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) latest update on the country's retail spending. The ABS reported that retail sales jumped by 0.9% in the month ...

Chief economist update: More jobs dull rate cut bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... cheer) but the equity market didn't like it. The S&P/ASX 200 index closed 0.3% lower after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest update on the country's labour market. This is because good news is bad news - that is, the ...

More MySuper accounts close than open: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... shows more MySuper accounts closed in the last financial year than were opened. According to APRA's annual MySuper statistics, about 2,151,403 new MySuper accounts were created in the 2018/19 financial year. However, about 2,189,859 were closed - around ...

Chief economist update: Australian economy gently turning which way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... resources sector..." Certainly, the "upswing in housing prices" would help but according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS): "Investment in new and used dwellings fell 2.8% in the quarter and 11.0% through the year, reflecting continued weakness ...

Concerns over rise of the mega-fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... appoint an active manager but it's not particularly easy if you have an internal team running the money," he said. APRA statistics show that in the 12 months to September 2019 the number of APRA-regulated RSE licensees fell from 126 to 114. "Some of ...

AMP given the boot by AFL

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... financial advice through Shadforth Financial Group. The AFL fund had $145 million in assets at June end, according to APRA statistics. Hostplus's MySuper option has better performance and is cheaper than AMP Signature Super's MySuper option. ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... was indication enough that China's manufacturing sector has stopped contracting. The official National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) China manufacturing PMI increased to a reading of 50.2 in November - 50 separates contraction from expansion - from ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... parents of disabled children, and noted that often advisers will be dealing with single parents. "Unfortunately, the statistics are that when you've got a child with disabilities the parents are more likely to split up," she explained. Havers said the ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... according to Dunnin, the figures don't quite stack up. Pointing to the APRA June 2019 Quarterly Superannuation Performance Statistics, Dunnin said the regulator reports retail funds to have total investment and administration expenses of 0.76%, compared ...