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Real Asset Management embraces SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
As part of an extension of its product range, Real Asset Management now offers two separately managed account strategies. Available via Macquarie Wrap, RAM's Diversified Fixed Interest & Credit SMA and its Listed Interest Rate Securities SMA strategies ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... This explains the recent softening in retail spending - up a mere 0.9% in the year to May from 4.2% in April - and by extension, overall household consumption, which accounts for around 66% of the UK economy. A premature rate hike threatens to compound ...

Bennelong launches new fund, hires analyst

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... BAEP's existing Australian equity funds. Bennelong investment director Julian Beaumont said the Fund represents a natural extension of BAEP's current offering to clients. "In some respects, the new microcap fund will also support our existing funds. ...

ASIC clarifies IFA definitions, extends SoA deadline

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... legislative reforms commencing 1 July, so long as the advice is requested and provided before that date. Outside of this extension, under s946C of the Corporations Act, a financial adviser must provide a SoA when or as soon as practicable following the ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... consumption. At the same time, lower oil prices reduce business input costs, increasing margins, lifting profits and by extension, business investment in plant, equipment, and staff. This is underscored by Oxford Economics' data that showed world private ...

Oil's not so slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... only been less than a month - 25 May -- since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced the extension of crude oil production cuts by nine months to the last day of March 2018 but oil prices are sliding again. The deal reached ...

Robo-advisers expected to meet fiduciary rule

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... certain considerations when seeking to comply with the Advisers Act." The toughening policy stance by the SEC will by extension draw robo-advisers into the same regulatory framework that now requires retirement advisers are subject to fiduciary obligations ...

IRESS to support boutique firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... New Zealand, Kirsty Gross, said the company is pleased to expand its relationship with Acorn Capital. "Acorn Capital's extension of its existing IRESS relationship reflects our strategy of providing a range of services to Australian fund managers. It ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... 100). How long could business conditions and confidence hold up in the face of weakening consumer confidence and, by extension, consumer spending? The pessimistic view is that sluggish pay increases (and negative real wage growth) and employment gains ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... payrolls report is called "The Mother of All Economic Reports" for nothing - it moves the US financial markets (and by extension, the global ones) up or down depending on the indications it presents when it's released. The US employment report for May ...