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Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... "accelerate financial reforms to improve the financial sector's efficiency". The PBOC will also strengthen efforts towards interest rate and currency liberalisation. These good goings-on in our biggest export market should be welcome news for Austral ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more hawkish leaning. Everybody got it right on the first - the RBA kept interest rates on hold - but missed on the second as it maintained a neutral stance. And for good reasons. It remains optimistic ...

Aussie large cap funds underperforming: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... solutions, but are limited to long-only equity strategies (Australian and global), with sparse offerings in Australian fixed interest and multi-asset to investors within Australia, Zenith noted. Advanced or specialist strategies such as long/short, market ...

Disengaged members vulnerable in super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
A review by ASIC into member experience with superannuation has highlighted a number of key vulnerabilities for consumers. The report, which mapped three stages of the superannuation lifecycle - joining a fund, participating in a fund, and changing ...

EOFY: Super funds to hit double digit returns

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... 11% by comparison are subdued but still high compared to lowering returns being delivered by bond markets in a rising interest rate environment. The 3% Australian dollar movement and difficulty investment managers have in accessing index returns will ...

Asset managers still charging more for less

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... shares for the three largest providers along with "a weak demand side, relatively low switching levels and conflicts of interest." One particular conflict of interest singled out in the report by submissions was asset consultants' ability to act independently ...

FPA supports ASIC independence definition

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... 'non-institutionally owned' if they receive commissions, volume-based payments, gifts or benefits. They must also have no conflicts of interest or influence from any product issuer. The Association of Financial Advisers on the other hand countered that ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... month of decline. Despite APRA's tighter rules on property lending and banks and lending agencies' implementing higher interest rates (irrespective of the RBA's "no change decisions" since November and December last year), the love affair with property ...

Powerwrap raises $19.4 million for growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... position the platform for the future. A trade sale process was also conducted where it received several expressions of interest, resulting in proposals from two key potential buyers. After lengthy consideration of all factors, the Powerwrap board decided ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... valuations based on traditional metrics like P/E ratios but qualified that: "those ratios ought to depend on long-term interest rates." Perhaps, but while the yield on US 10-year bonds have risen to 2.27% overnight, they're still lower than the 2.44% ...