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New manager for Charter Hall fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... portfolio comprises 21 office properties, more than 80% of which are located in the strong performing eastern seaboard states with an occupancy level of 98% and an average WALE of 6.4 years. Recent additions to the portfolio include Melbourne Waters ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Scary headlines over the prospect of an all-out war between North Korea and the United States (and its allies) continue to flood cyberspace. The latest of which is America's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley's remark that Kim Jong-un is "begging ...

Government opens doors to offshore investment vehicles

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... of assets. A study of global pension assets by Willis Towers Watson found that Australia was second only to the United States in its home equity bias," the draft legislation explained. When regulators in two "sufficiently equivalent jurisdictions" agree ...

Financial services leaders push for marriage equality

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
More than sixty major financial services institutions are supporting marriage equality in the lead up to the highly anticipated postal survey on same-sex marriage. Financial services businesses ranging from superannuation funds AustralianSuper and HESTA ...

AIA pilots door-to-door claims program

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... that will provide essential products to help through the illness. If successful, the service will be rolled out to other states around Australia. Moving away from traditional claim lodgements, Claims on Wheels aims to take care of the process for AIA ...

Avoid the ETF trap: Bell Direct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... passive alone will not deliver the desired return outcomes," he added. While Australia continues to lag behind the United States in terms of ETF uptake, passive allocation by local investors show no signs of abating, reaching $30 billion in funds under ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... warned that: "The era of strategic patience is over. President Trump has made it clear that the patience of the United States and our allies in this region has run out and we want to see change. We will defeat any attack and we will meet any use of conventional ...

Aussie banks cleared of Wells Fargo-type conduct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... identify unlawful selling of retail banking products," he said. In late 2016, Wells Fargo was fined US$100 million by United States regulators after it was found that its staff had systematically and unlawfully opened as many as two million customer ...

Advice business offers enforceable undertaking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... agreed to engage an independent expert within 10 days to review client files and remediate clients where appropriate. FIA states that it has updated its policies and procedures since ASIC's surveillance was conducted. The ASIC investigation was carried ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... reduction in the previous month. This portends increased consumer demand, supported by the "permanent income hypothesis" that states consumer spending depends on workers' expectations of the permanency of their current and future incomes - full-timers' ...