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Link Group names Fund Solutions chief

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... product services. Before State Street, Khoury was director of investment operations at Focus Investment Management, head of research and statistics at the Investment Funds Association of Australia and an actuarial consultant at MIRA Consultants. Khoury ...

Only 17pct of Aussie families seek advice: St.George

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Latest research from St.George Bank highlights only 17% of Australian households seek financial advice. The bank's research also said 70% of parents taught themselves how to budget, however 43% did say there was some prior learning from their parents. ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Six index points or 0.1% is all the All Ordinaries index needs to add to by the close of today's trading activity and it would match the decade-high (January 2008) closing level of 6241.46 points recorded on January 9 this year. As at yesterday's ...

Tech is all upside for insurance: HSBC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
Latest HSBC research highlights insurance is an industry ready for disruption, and envisages significant benefits related to technology-enabled solutions to financial inclusion and affordability issues. In the report HSBC outlines the various ways in ...

Vertical integration needs overhaul: Poll

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... may propose outlawing vertical integration, it is unlikely to ultimately become a law, according to its analysts in a research note dated May 4. However, UBS is now putting a 20% probability on structural separation and is factoring it in as a tail risk ...

Activist LIC appoints new director

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... Sandon, with current director Matthew Kidman a former WAM portfolio manager and currently serving as director of WAM Research Limited and WAM Active Limited. While former Sandon director Paul Jensen served on WAM Capital's board for 13 years, departing ...

Chief economist update: New RBNZ Governor maintains old policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
The prevailing global dynamics of tight labour markets and low inflation is not the sole purview of big developed economies. It's happening in the US - the biggest economy in the world (US$18.6 trillion in 2016, according to World Bank estimates) ...

More mums in the workforce: ABS

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
As Mother's Day fast approaches, latest Census data shows more than 53% of Australia's six million mums are active in the workforce - an increase of about seven percentage points over the 10 years to 2016. The Australian Bureau of Statistics also points ...

PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
PIMCO has partnered with a financial technology company to enhance its quantitative research and analytic capabilities into its investment process. Part of the partnership sees PIMCO acquiring a minority stake in cloud-based integrated data and financial ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
The Fed is on track for another two more of its forward guided three interest rate hikes this year. This is the message from the just-released US CPI report for April. Despite the continued improvement in the US unemployment rate - down to 3.9% in April ...