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AMP Capital partners for Irish healthcare assets

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
AMP Capital partnered with an Irish investment manager to establish a new investment vehicle targeted at primary care centres in Ireland. The new vehicle, Valley Healthcare, is jointly managed by AMP Capital and Irish Life Investment Managers. The centres ...

PM Capital expands distribution team

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... following roles at BT Financial Group, Perennial Investment Partners and IOOF Investment Management. PM Capital chief executive Ben Skilbeck said: "We see excellent opportunities in the Victorian, Tasmanian and Western Australian markets to better inform ...

Association and regulator join forces for industry benefit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
Marking an Australian first, the SMSF Association announced a strategic partnership with one of the biggest financial services regulators. The association has entered a three-year strategic partnership with the Australian Tax Office to ensure effective ...

Workers missing out on $147m in super: REST

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
Less than one in ten Australians are aware of the $450 superannuation guarantee threshold according to new research from REST Industry Super. The Future of Work, a whitepaper commissioned by REST to understand the different expectations of employers ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
"Beware the ides of March". This quote had always been imbued with a sense of foreboding because this day marked the assassination of Julius Caesar back in 44 BC. It shouldn't be for the "ides" was just the fancy way Romans termed the 15th day of March ...

CBA records $4.9bn half-year profit

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
Commonwealth Bank's wealth management arm recorded a $249 million profit in the second half of 2016, up 6% on the first six months of the calendar year. The wealth division was a small contributor to CBA's overall net profit after tax of $4.9 billion ...

FPA expels and fines dishonest member

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
The Financial Planning Association Conduct Review Commission Disciplinary Panel has expelled financial adviser Darren Tindall and issued a fine of $16,000. In a determination handed down on 10 February, the CRC decided to expel Tindall of PWM Advice ...

Act like a professional to be a professional: Slattery

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
To regain the trust of Australians the SMSF sector must maintain the standards expected and demanded of professionals and to think otherwise is delusional. Opening the 2017 SMSF Association National Conference in Melbourne, chief executive Andrea Slattery ...

British inflation quickens but still off-target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
UK headline consumer price inflation quickened to 1.8% in the year to January from 1.6% in the previous month. While lower than the expected 1.9% increase, this is the fastest gain in consumer prices since June 2014. According to the Office for National ...

China price rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
If inflation was the man driver of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy, the latest update on consumer prices would not have a significant sway on interest rate direction - up or down. China's consumer price inflation accelerated to 2.5% in ...