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Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... March quarter - stronger than consensus expectations for an already strong 0.9% advance - and by 3.5% over the year - the fastest pace in nearly two years and above trend growth of 3.25%. Please no, don't rejoice! Wipe that smile off your faces for ...

Regulation tops Australian business risk survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... that Australian companies see the global marketplace as having a more significant impact on their business success. The fastest mover in the top 10 this year was 'people risk,' which moved up eight positions and now occupies third place in the Aon survey. ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... mechanism might be beginning to transmit. For instance, Spanish real GDP growth accelerated to 0.4% in the March quarter - the fastest pace in 6 years -- from 0.2% in the previous three-month period. As it was for Belgium. Real GDP grew by 0.4% in the ...

BetaShares passes $1bn milestone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... behind iShares, State Street and Vanguard. BetaShares launched its first ETF in December 2010, and has since become the fastest-growing local provider of exchange traded funds, with 13 different products currently available to Australian investors, including ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... is affirmed by latest data that shows sales at large-scale department stores soaring by 16.1% in the year to March, the fastest increase in sales since March 1997 - which was also been boosted by advanced buying ahead of the lifting of the consumption ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... "girt by sea" this April morn'. Australians, all, let's NOT rejoice! For the IMF discovered that "Australia has posted the fastest budget deterioration over the past six months of any of the 29 most advanced economies tracked by the International Monetary ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... Carney's presiding over an economy that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted -- only last night - to be the fastest growing among the G7 this year. Yes Virginia, the IMF sees the UK expanding by 2.9% in 2014 and by 2.5% in 2015 and... ...

Multi-asset portfolios key for retiree income

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... strategic positions or can fundamentally change the mix to suit changes in the market. "Multi-asset has been one of the fastest growing sectors. Institutional investors are interested in portfolios with bond-like volatility but with sustainable level ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... more quadrupled to 1.8%, a figure which represents almost 10,000 funds. Self-managed super funds are superannuation's fastest growing segment with 520,000 funds holding $590 billion in funds under management as at June 2013. According to ATO data, an ...

Northern Trust hires from within for global head role

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... of global fund services Peter Cherecwich, and Australia and New Zealand country head Rohan Singh. "Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region for Northern Trust with assets under custody growing at an annual rate of 26% from 2008 through 2013, and assets ...