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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Australia retirement and retirement intentions The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) survey (conducted 2014-15) on retirement and retirement intentions show that Australians intend to work longer than ever before. The survey - which started a few ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
US personal income and outlays Sluggish US personal income and spending data have doused speculations of an April rate hike - prompted by St. Louis Fed president James Bullard's comments last week that, "You get another strong jobs report, it looks ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
Brazil unemployment The unemployment rate in Latin America's biggest economy jumped to 8.2% in February from 7.6% in the previous month. This is slightly higher than expectations for a rise to 8.1% but is the highest since May 2009. Hardly surprising ...

Platforms rise by $51.4bn in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
The latest platform and wrap analysis from Plan for Life shows overall masterfund business increased by $51.4 billion or 8.3% during 2015, now standing at more than $672 billion. Plan for Life said masterfunds climbed $31.2 billion or 4.9% in the December ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
Australia residential property price index Residential property prices in Australia's eight capital cities (weighted average) increased by 0.2% in the December quarter. Though still higher than market expectations for 0% growth, the fourth quarter growth ...

SSGA Aussie equity fund added to Asgard platform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... quantitative equity team, and has achieved a total 10.69% return over five years (net of fees). It is also available through BT Wrap, CFS FirstWrap, netwealth, Macquarie Wrap and HUB24. "The fund's success reflects not only the returns which could be ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
US existing home sales The National Association of Realtors reported that total sales of previously owned houses dropped by 7.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08 million units in February - more than double consensus expectations for a 3.0% ...

Retail managed funds rose strongly in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... Macquarie funds recorded in the December quarter was mainly due to an internal transfer of $10.4 billion into the Macquarie Wrap Solutions platform of assets they previously managed outside of their reported retail business. Out of all the companies ...

Legg Mason Brandywine gets nod from Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... Brandywine Global Opportunistic Fixed Income trust is available on BT, AMP, IOOF, MLC, Navigator, netwealth, Linear, Power Wrap, and Macquarie wrap platforms, and the mFund Settlement Service.

SMAs driving growth at fund manager Altair

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
Australian shares and income fund manager Altair Asset Management are seeing more demand for its managed accounts solutions, signing two major planning groups in recent months and close to wrapping up one other. Founder and chief investment officer ...