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Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... for longer'. McBirnie said this is reflective of the Reserve Bank of Australia noting in July that the neutral nominal cash rate is now 3.5% rather than 5% previously. "Even so, SMSF households are still better placed than most sectors of the community ...

Westpac chair joins boutique manager board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... and will provide investors an exposure to a portfolio of more than 50 corporate loans targeting a return of the RBA cash rate plus 3.25% per annum net of fees. MCP manages wholesale funds with assets of more than $2 billion.

AZ Sestante grows fund list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... its Australian footprint with the launch of Sestante Global Macro Fund. The Global Macro Fund aims to outperform the cash rate before fees and keeps volatility less than 4%; it has a low correlation to the financial markets over a rolling one-year period. ...

Boring is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... year stint as head honcho of the Australian central bank is that Mr. Lowe did nothing - that is, he kept the official cash rate where he found it, at a record low 1.5%...to this day. In a word, boring. But boring is good, for unlike the extreme volatility ...

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... painted by RBA governor Philip Lowe's statement after the bank's board meeting on 1 August (where it kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5%). But despite the RBA's optimistic outlook, the domestic equity market appears to be going nowhere. This ...

Exposing the hidden risks of cash

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... Retirement Income, Hofflin argued that "in our view, the 'worst case' income from dividends seems well above even today's cash rate." Illustrating this, he pointed to the average decline of 32% of gross dividend yield across all economic crises since ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash rate setting of 11/2% today is not as expansionary ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... under the already strengthening Australian dollar were these: "Financial market pricing continued to suggest that the cash rate was expected to remain unchanged over the remainder of 2017, but had shifted to indicate some probability of an increase in ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
No one expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise or lower the official cash rate from its current 1.5% when its board met on the 4 July, but only a few expected the Australian central bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more ...

Zagga pitches alternative asset class

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... Greenstein told potential investors that the time had come for debt based products - providing access to returns above the cash rate at acceptable risk. "The problem investors have is that there is no yield out there," Greenstein said. "Rates are very ...

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Federal Court calls out ASIC for re-running case on appeal

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
The Full Federal Court of Australia has criticised regulators for falling back on appeals to re-litigate cases on a different legal basis than the one run at trial.

Evergreen founder exits Ascalon Capital

KARREN VERGARA
Ascalon Capital has bid farewell to Evergreen Consultants' founder Angela Ashton, shortly after acquiring the consulting firm last year.

Powerhouse Ventures partners with European fund manager

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ASX-listed Powerhouse Ventures has partnered with an unnamed European fund manager that will commit US$50 million to its fledgling Critical Infrastructure Opportunities (CIO) Fund.

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