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Praemium data feeds added to BGL platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... is the 12th largest platform in the country, with about $5.1 billion FUA as of September 2017, according to Rainmaker research.

Convicted SMSF auditor disqualified

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... 29 months' imprisonment for working as a tax professional for a company that fraudulently claimed $549,719 under the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Incentive. Samarakoon also transferred majority of the funds to his personal account, pocketing $380,000 ...

Climate change a real risk for investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... decisions - 25% strongly agreed it materially impacts the investment value chain and requires an urgent response. Latest research from environment finance group Market Forces shows numerous ASX100 companies are failing to improve their climate risk disclosure ...

SMEs shun banks, turn to fintechs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Small-to-medium enterprises are increasingly shunning banks and turning to fintechs and alternative sources to fuel growth and operational needs, an SME growth sentiment index shows. The proportion of SMEs planning to use banks dropped from 38% to 24% ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
The Fed meets this week and it's almost as good as gold that it will announce another gentle 25 basis points hike, taking the fed funds rate to 1.5%-1.75% - CME FedWatch Tool has the probability of a rate hike at 94.4% - when the US central bank concludes ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... non-property investors support the modification of negative gearing policy as fears over housing affordability grow. New research from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) shows 55% of non-property investors would support changes ...

Former UniSuper investment analyst joins AustralianSuper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... for the $65 billion fund, covering tactical asset allocation, currency overlay, in-house trading function, fund manager research, equity research, investment reporting, risk monitoring, fund rebalancing and liquidity management. Before that, he was a ...

Nomura appoints Australian president

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... merchant banking, corporate, and banking businesses. Separately, Nomura Holdings is currently working with a university on a research project to test if quantum computing can speed up calculations and select investment mixes for its asset management ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces an uphill battle in its quest to normalise monetary policy if economic and financial market agents continue to "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... trusts as risks increase in these investments. In an outlook report, PIMCO portfolio manager Aaditya Thakur and credit research analyst John Dwyer said that while PIMCO remains "constructive on Australian credit thanks to favourable macroeconomic conditions ...