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Financial advisers should consider bitcoin as an asset class: Dunworth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
There is no better way to understand blockchain technology than to invest in bitcoins, a digital currency that has outperformed traditional currencies in recent years, according to an industry expert. This week the cryptocurrency broke record-highs ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... policy remains at the back of everyone's minds but that has been allayed by his statement, "Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem?" after his cordial meeting with Chinese president Xi ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... and significantly above market expectations for a 3.2% gain. Trump's recent announcement that he won't declare China a currency manipulator should provide further impetus for export growth in the coming months. With the faster growth in fixed asset investment ...

SSGA expands active managed funds business

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... one. They currently offer five active funds - benchmark-unaware Australian and global equity strategies (with dynamic currency hedging for the global strategy), and three objective-based asset allocation funds to support lifestage planning. "There's ...

Unclear disclosure costs bank $5m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... international transaction fees, misleading customers to believe such fees apply only to transactions made in a foreign currency or with an overseas merchant. Westpac was similarly reprimanded in September 2016 for failing to disclose credit card purchases ...

Goldman Sachs launches junk bond ETF

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... excluded. Goldman Sachs also filed registration statements with the SEC for the Goldman Sachs Access Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF, and the Goldman Sachs Access Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF. Goldman Sachs was granted permission to introduce ...

Citi boosts wealth team

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... with four new hires. Danica Hampton joins Citi as head of investment specialists. Prior to this role she was head of currency overlay and solution sales at NAB; and global markets research senior strategist at the Bank of New Zealand. Simson Sanaphay ...

Record adviser numbers attend Sydney ABDO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... they are because the US and Europe are at 0% - the Reserve Bank of Australia is more concerned about what happens to the currency due to that yield differential than they are about arduously low interest rates," Carleton said. "Rates could rise irrespective ...

RBNZ on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... the official cash rate unchanged at 1.75% at its March policy meeting as widely expected because of two reasons: The currency. The New Zealand central bank is encouraged by the fall in the NZ$'s trade weighted exchange rate (down 4% since February) but ...

Legg Mason bond funds receive Zenith tick

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... conviction, value-driven approach that predominantly seeks to generate returns from global sovereign bonds, as well as currency and credit."