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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
Australian GDP The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the country's National Accounts report showing that while the economy's quarterly real GDP growth halved to 0.5% in the three months to June from 1.0% in the March quarter, the annual ...

Centuria taps Google for latest board appointment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... held a number of senior roles in Australia and the UK across a range of industries including global law firms DLA Piper and King & Wood Mallesons, worked with the Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic airline brands and has held the role of vice president ...

Risk advice revenue falls 7pc in 2016

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... reforms are already testing the business models of financial planners across Australia," said Investment Trends senior analyst King Loong Choi. "Not only are they already reporting a fall in risk business, more than two in five planners expect their ...

IRESS profit up 15%

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Financial services technology provider IRESS has lifted its statutory net profit 15% to $32.7 million for the six months to 30 June 2016 compared to the same period last year. The rise was 22% ahead of the previous six months. Operating revenue increased ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... split on what results will be. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, director of research and strategy at QIC, Katrina King, said the market was tentative as to whether the assessment would reveal a need for more data or a reassessment on the ability ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... Management executive director and portfolio manager of the firm's Diversified Fixed Income Fund, Jeff Grow. While so-called 'bond king' Bill Gross spooked many investors with his comments in June that US$10 trillion of negative rate bonds globally is ...

UK IFAs increasingly outsourcing to DFMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
United Kingdom independent financial advisers (IFAs) are increasingly outsourcing investment assets to discretionary fund managers (DFMs) as asset managers start to feel the fee pressure pinch, according to Cerulli Associates' 'Asset Management in the ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... but investors seem to have been hypnotized that nothing can go wrong." He's betting on gold and gold miners. Bond market king Bill Gross echoes Gundlach view, "If we see fiscal stimulation in Japan China and ultimately the US after the election, I think ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
Some of the world's major central banks have already started the race even before the opening ceremony of "Rio 2016" on the 3rd of August. Perhaps it was much too early but the European Central Bank (ECB) opted not to start running when at its governing ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Australia's record beef exports Australia exported a record 267,578 tonnes of grainfed beef in 2015-16, up 15% year-on-year. This is 4,618 tonnes higher than the previous record in 2006-07, according to the Meat and Livestock Association. The MLA said ...