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Chief economist update: The angel in the capex details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
Australian actual total capital expenditure was down 0.5% in the third quarter following a 0.9% decline in the second and lower than market expectations for a 1% pick up. That's the headline splattered on our screens when the Australian Bureau of ...

Super pool ripe for adviser picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
The growing pool of superannuation means there has never been a better time to be a financial adviser, according to a new industry white paper. With super assets projected to hit $9.5 trillion by 2035, ClearView believes this represents an unprecedented ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
Are we seeing US President Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal" in real-time, live and in action? Ever since Trump declared a trade war with China in late March this year, there have been actual implementations, threats, some concessions and now ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
Minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 24-25 October Governing Council meeting confirmed that it remains on track to end its net asset purchases - currently at a monthly pace of €15 billion - by the end of December 2018. No probs here. We've ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The ups and downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices ...

Royal Commission on social media: Executives grilled

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... opportunistic and self-serving behaviours, asks Dr @llenten ? https://t.co/5yCR2coHzR | via @ConversationEDU #BankingRC #ausecon pic.twitter.com/2kyf546X8q - La Trobe University (@latrobe) November 23, 2018 La Trobe University suggested confiscating ...

Class enhances XPLAN integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
The latest integration between Class and XPLAN will enable financial advisers to have a single shared view of data and assets. Users will be able to vie all investments held within Class and XPLAN, including unlisted assets such as direct property. ...

Read the whole thing: FASEA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
In his first address to the financial advice industry, FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield urged advisers and stakeholders to ensure they read the authority's draft legislation in its entirety to avoid further confusion. Addressing the 2018 FPA ...

Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Thirteen months on from securing its first boutique partners, the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management is ready to scale up. But will Brexit get in the way? Speaking to Financial Standard in London recently, BennBridge chief operating officer Greg ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
2018 started as a good year (not the tyres) but with so many bumps in the road is, to keep up with the metaphor, flattening the tyres of global growth. There's the Fed's determination to return monetary policy back to normality - that's ...