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Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... of finance professionals tackled tricky case studies at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Forum in Sydney yesterday afternoon. Technical services professionals from IOOF and BT Financial Group presented case studies based on two topics: distributing ...

Chief economist update: Stuck in the very slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... quibble about decimal points but RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle's recent statement at the CFO Forum held in Sydney yesterday, quipped that "Recent data on wages provides some assurance that wages growth has troughed." For sure wages growth may have ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney yesterday. Not only did we notice it gov, we expected it! But perhaps not very many noticed that while it was not a cut and paste job ...

Advisers cautious over fixed income allocations

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... fixed income assets. J.P. Morgan global market strategist for Australia, Kerry Craig, told a media briefing in Sydney yesterday that one of the most frequent themes that come up in conversation with advisers is fixed income and what to do with an asset ...

Chief economist update: RBA sees wages growth recovering but it's not guaranteed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... questions Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic) - tried to answer in her address to the ABE Conference in Sydney yesterday. "How resilient will consumption growth be if income growth stays weak?" Ellis asked. "Our central forecast is that this ...

Responsible investment here to stay: Experts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... broader sample of funds in most of the cases," Lim said. The comments were made at a BetaShares media briefing in Sydney yesterday. The event examined increases in demand for ethical funds, the investment case for investing ethically, and the varying ...

The PI risks of goals-based advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... insurance. That was the warning heeded by delegates at the inaugural Association of Goals Based Advice conference in Sydney yesterday, with MKM Partners' Oscar Martinis saying the various mechanisms to implement goals-based advice can have differing ...

Alternative investment manager opens Sydney office

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... eyeing opportunities in Australia with views to opening a Sydney office next year. Speaking at a media lunch in Sydney yesterday, Capital Funds Management (CFM) president Phillippe Jordan said while the firm had been working with Australian investors ...

BEAR regime must extend entire industry: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... it may not go far enough, ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. Speaking at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event in Sydney yesterday, Medcraft said holding individuals within major organisations to account for their actions and those of their staff is a good ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... 2018, however Silk noted it could expand to 50% or more in coming years. Speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event in Sydney yesterday, Silk said the fund's assets grew by 18% in 2016 and it currently has about $120 billion under management. He added that ...