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APN Property launches direct regional fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
APN Property Group is capitalising on growth in Newcastle by launching a direct regional property fund underpinned by two local office buildings. The APN Regional Property Fund will offer investors the opportunity to invest in what Colliers International ...

Chief economist update: Where sentiment goes, there too is spending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... all - interest rates and balance sheet tapering - proceedings? Looking only at the indicator at hand - despite its monthly ups and downs, the University of Michigan's three major indices of consumer sentiment have flat-lined over at least the past ...

Spousal top ups to beat super balance inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
An industry association has used its pre-Budget submission to call for the introduction of a spousal rollover measure to help bridge the gender gap in superannuation balances. The SMSF Association said allowing individuals to rollover a portion of their ...

Ideas give insight to opportunity: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
A recession might happen, eventually. But if it does growth might not be far off either, according to Vanguard. Speaking today at the Sydney leg of the fund manager's financial adviser roadshow, Vanguard global chief economist and global head of investment ...

Vertical integration changes to reshape personal wealth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... traditional sales and marketing campaigns. "For services such as personal financial management, measuring the number of sign-ups would no longer be adequate, but quantifying how customers benefit from the service will prove to be a more crucial measure ...

Roll-it Super expands offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... Stone & Chalk chief executive Alex Scandurra said industries in the future will see more organisations partnering with start-ups to increase the pace of transformation, and to inject much-needed innovation to ultimately deliver a better product and/or ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... won't open mortgages to part-timers (that is, of course, pending the findings of the Royal Commission). That said, the ups and downs of the seasonally adjusted data might be good for trading but they don't provide a clear direction of the labour ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
What a world of difference a year makes! The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just released its World Economic Outlook Update, the heading: A Weakening Global Expansion. Says it all, really...and for a synopsis: "The global expansion has weakened. ...

No-deal Brexit sparks mixed reaction: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Financial Standard's latest survey shows the financial services sector is grappling with the effects the upcoming Brexit deal will have on the industry. On the back of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's historic defeat of her proposed exit strategy ...

AustralianSuper consortium ups bid for Navitas

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
The BGH Consortium, which includes AustralianSuper, has finally unlocked the doors to Navitas after it upped its previously rebuffed bid to acquire the company. The Navitas board yesterday granted exclusive due diligence to the consortium, after it ...