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Industry funds dominate member satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
Only two retail super funds made the top 10 in a Roy Morgan list that measured how satisfied members felt with their fund's financial performance. The two retail funds to make the list were Asgard and Macquarie and they were below the average satisfaction ...

Royal Commissions puts pressure on finance sector job market: Sunsuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
Latest research from Sunsuper shows that despite the permanent job market actually rising over the last 12 months, the finance sector still took a significant hit in job demand. With the Royal Commission placing unprecedented scrutiny on the industry ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
"Not happy, Jan!" For the young ones, the quote refers to Telstra's "yellow pages" advertisement back in the days before the internet, when you, I and Irene scoured through pages and pages (two volumes of it) of listings to buy stuff or get our ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
A Melbourne bond manager won a $180 million mandate from UniSuper as the super fund increased its allocation to fixed income. UniSuper appointed Jamieson Coote Bonds to manage about $180 million in Australian government bonds in November. The mandate ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
It's ironic that for a country known as the United Kingdom, there seems to be an absence of well, unity. The (dis)United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May and her proposed Brexit deal lost big time in the House of Commons by a record 230 ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
I hear ya! US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell had already come out declaring something along these lines at his first outing for 2018. Still, it's more comforting to have all the members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) put their imprimatur in ...

Hiring continues but wage growth under pressure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
The Royal Commission inquiry and the state of the property market has not dampened the financial services sector's positive hiring intentions over the next three months, recruitment firm ManpowerGroup says, but there are challenges. The finance, insurance ...

Advice groups sign on to HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
HUB24 has signed on two national advice businesses, as its total funds under management crossed the $10 billion mark. Brisbane-based licensee AdviceIQ Partners brings 31 registered planners to HUB24's platform. The licensee has added 10 planners ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Sydney residential property was hit hard in 2018, as house prices slid nationally to end the year with the biggest decline quarter on quarter since 2008, according to CoreLogic. Sydney dwellings values fell 8.9% over the year and total returns were ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
Investors who firmly believe that fixed income is a safety net in times of market volatility - and followed through by ditching equities - have been well-rewarded for their efforts. Investors in Australia who switched to bonds at the end of October ...