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Infrastructure manager grows local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
A global infrastructure manager has hired from Clearview and Powerwrap as it expands its Australian team. RARE infrastructure has hired Hamish Bell to support its distribution team with investment and technical sales expertise. In his most recent role ...

Financial services employment to boom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
The employment outlook for the financial services sector is at a six-year high, despite the Royal Commission. Latest figures from Manpower show the net employment outlook for the finance, insurance and real estate sectors is up 21% for the fourth quarter ...

Quant manager seeks to unscramble cryptocurrency dictionary

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
A $160 billion global quantitative investment manager is supporting research that aims to determine whether cryptocurrency prices are predictable. Using natural language processing, the Oxford-Man Institute research is attempting to identify tradeable ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Just when we thought the times of central bank surprises were things of the past, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) brought them back. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of its October ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
There were some moments so far in 2018 when it perked up against the US dollar but the path of least resistance has been a decline for the New Zealand dollar. The NZ dollar has dropped by 6.8% versus the greenback (to US$0.6628) this year to date and ...

Diversity a material economic indicator: AXA IM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... Managers' (AXA IM) quantitative platform Rosenberg Equities shows the level of an entity's board diversity can be used to predict its financial outcomes and ability to protect future profits. AXA IM said the research studied the largest 1000 US companies ...

Labor commits $400m to gender super gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2018
If elected, the Labor Party will work to narrow the retirement savings gap by topping up the superannuation accounts of women on parental leave among several other measures. Labor leader Bill Shorten has announced a plan to add $400 million to the super ...

Dealer groups lift due diligence post Dover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
The sudden closure of Dover Financial Advisers saw a mad scramble by authorised representatives to secure alternative licensing arrangements. Hundreds were successful in doing so before the July 6 deadline, but latest ASIC Financial Adviser Register ...

Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) is reason to be concerned: "The ability of the Treasury yield curve to predict future recessions has recently received a great deal of public attention. An inversion of the yield curve - when short-term ...

Advice mentoring opportunities abound

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Mature-age financial advisers considering leaving the industry before 2024 may find themselves with a new role to fill as the need for professional coaches and mentors grows. Mentor Education founder and principal Mark Sinclair said the number of enquiries ...