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Robo-adviser partners with private wealth firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... Melbourne-based private wealth firm to provide its proprietary online financial advice and wealth management technology. The white-label structure will see Collins House offer a digital advice service to clients: Collins House Online Investment Services ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... sense because a day before Trump's 25/10 steel/aluminium tariff took effect on the 23 March, POTUS announced that the White House would be imposing a 25% tariff on around US$60 billion of Chinese imports, with Factset reporting: "Trump reiterated his ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... given the strengthening momentum in the US economy? Or less, given the general uncertainty emanating from Trump's White House? We'll soon find out. For it's also at this month's meeting that the Fed releases its FOMC projections for GDP growth, inflation ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... steel and a 10% tariff on foreign aluminium when the product comes across our borders." A statement issued by the White House titled, "President Donald J. Trump is Addressing Unfair Trade Practices That Threaten to Harm Our National Security", lists ...

ASFA slams Grattan's super proposals

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... Institute's key proposals to close the persistent gender gap in superannuation. Grattan Institute fellow Brendan Coates authored a white-paper that said superannuation is currently a "generous" system and advocating for more tax breaks to boost retirement ...

China poised for asset management boom

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
China is forecast to become the second largest asset management market globally by 2019, sitting just behind the US, according to Casey Quirk. The consultancy firm also anticipates China will attract half of the industry's new asset flows in two years' ...

Industry Super pushes for affordable housing asset class

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... and Melbourne, with Canberra not too far behind. "In the past five years, incomes in Sydney have risen 15% on average, but house prices have risen 87%. It's simply unsustainable," Anthony said. The paper highlighted a number of solutions to tackle the ...

The British pound's sterling reversal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... expected - but what it told markets it's about to do that sent the British pound soaring last week. Not only is it in black and white... "A majority of MPC members judge that, if the economy continues to follow a path consistent with the prospect of ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... rational. We're all aware of the RBA's optimism over the international and domestic economy, it told us so - in black and white - in its 4 July Statement of Monetary Policy. But the minutes of that meeting indicate that it was more optimistic than the ...

Zagga pitches alternative asset class

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... know how many banks would have turned that deal around in the time that we could," Greenstein said. Zagga will also seek to white label their platform to other marketplace lenders to be able to achieve greater liquidity for investors.