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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Australia retail sales It hasn't been since January this year that we saw retail spending increase at this monthly rate. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that retail sales grew by 0.4% in the month of August - higher than the ...

Erin Truscott named AFA Rising Star

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
GCA Financial's Erin Truscott has been named this year's AFA Rising Star in a ceremony at the industry association's annual conference in the nation's capital. The AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, which is supported by ANZ Wealth, was launched in ...

Bennelong appoints new product manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed a former Equity Trustees product manager. Marta Galli joins the investment firm in the newly created role of product manager, based in Melbourne. Galli is responsible for the co-ordination of all product matters ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Australia ANZ job ads The latest ANZ job ads survey shows that the total number of job advertisements fell by 0.3% in the month of September following the strong 1.7% jump in the previous month. The year-on-year growth in job ads slowed to 3.7% last ...

Super members should face "better off test"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Industry Super Australia wants a "better off test" requiring banks and other financial services providers to demonstrate that switching a member's superannuation will be beneficial. Additionally the representative group is calling for banks to ban all ...

Funds management giants in historic merger

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Two major global managers have agreed to an all-stock merger of equals. Henderson and Janus Capital, post-merger, will be known as Janus Henderson Global Investors. The combined entity will represent over US$320 billion in assets under management and ...

Vanguard reduces MERs on five funds

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Vanguard has lowered the management expense ratios on five of its Australian funds. The fee reductions apply to the Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield Fund (from 0.4% p.a. to 0.38%), Vanguard Australian Property Securities Index Fund (0.24% to 0.23%) ...

CommInsure under fire again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank has released an update on the ongoing independent review into its life insurance division CommInsure, following further accusations of misconduct. The review findings show the bank has retrieved and revised over five million documents ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
MSCI head of Research Remy Briand has countered a recent paper from AllianceBernstein which suggested passive investing is "worse than Marxism." The original paper, spearheaded by Bernstein Investment Research and Management head of global quantitative ...