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UK loses £800bn in assets amid Brexit fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... British parliament to ratify it. If approved, the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019. The UK parliament will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal this month. EY UK financial services leader Omar Ali said as things stand and as per ...

Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... closely with Frontier's head of equities research Fraser Murray. In his most recent role he was a senior investment analyst at Prime Value, where he covered Aussie large and small caps for five years. Before this he spent a decade at Standard and Poors ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
When UK prime minister Theresa May declared that "Brexit is Brexit" and "no Brexit deal is better than a bad Brexit deal" when she addressed EU ambassadors in London on the 17 January 2017, she laid out 12 objectives for Brexit negotiations: 1. Clarity ...

AustralianSuper changes property option

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... SelectingSuper data shows. It returned 7.5% in the year ending September. By contrast, the top performer in property option was Prime Super which returned 13.8% over the same horizon. AustralianSuper's property option has been around since 1999 and ...

Industry fund, IRESS begin automated advice journey

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... director, superannuation Jeff Hall said the solution can also be coupled with WA Super's use of scaled advice solution XPLAN Prime. Using one technology provider for the digital advice solution reduces risks associated with re-keying data between disparate ...

Perpetual partners with Microsoft

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... The insights available are incredible." Microsoft Australia chief technology officer Lee Hickin said the new module is a prime example of how a business can extract more value from its data when it makes it accessible and searchable via the cloud. "Critically ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... called the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new agreement is expected to be signed by US president Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in 60 days before being sent to the US Congress for ...

Labor proposes RC implementation task force

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... hear from more people, more victims in more parts of Australia." Labor called for the Royal Commission in April, 2016 and Prime Minister Scott Morrison voted against it 26 times, she added. "The Liberals [were] tooth and nail against the establishment ...

Chief economist update: Surplus here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... and higher than estimated dividends from the Future Fund of $5.1 billion (versus $3.8 billion). Australia's deposed prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, must be wishing the report was released sooner so that it wasn't Finance Minister Mathias Cormann ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... has also benefitted from recent developments pointing to continued stability --in government and monetary policy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory in the just-concluded ruling party leadership vote indicates the continued progression on 'Abenomics'. ...