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Prime establishes new business division

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
... by $131 million to $1.1 billion in the 2017 financial year, which the firm's annual report said was "mainly driven by stronger-than-normal net FUM inflows, triggered partly by changes to superannuation legislation and also as a consequence of increased ...

ASIC flags stronger adviser surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
About $618.8 million was paid in compensating and remediating corporate misconduct in the six months to June - almost a fourfold increase on the second half of 2016. During the period, ASIC removed 23 individuals from working in financial service; commenced ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... the rate of underemployment - or what the ABS describes as "underutilised productive capacity" - that now provides a stronger negative correlation with wages. Wage Price Index: Definition The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines the Wage Price ...

Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... released overnight) is of the "wanted" kind - i.e. businesses are deliberately building up stocks in anticipation of stronger sales going forward. Business inventories rose by a better than expected 0.5% in June following a 0.3% gain in the previous ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... down on their existing holdings. This time will be no different. More so, because US economic growth fundamentals are stronger now than what it was four months ago in April. Besides, the headlined 44.4% jump overnight took the index up to a reading of ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... and therefore, the near-term direction of monetary policy. Governor Lowe discussed and tried to explain in detail why stronger labour markets - in Australia and the world - aren't "generating more upward pressure on wages." "The persistent slow growth ...

Government gives super system further makeover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... on how the fund sets its fees and the way it spends members' money. Strengthening default MySuper products including a stronger annual assessment of MySuper product outcomes to ensure the investment and insurance strategies, fees, scale and returns are ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... Australian economy of faster global growth," it would also put downward pressure on inflation. More so these days when stronger growth fails to generate faster inflation. The problem is not measured inflation per se, but what low inflation does to inflation ...

Global asset manager acquires stake in Aussie driller

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... consolidated its market-leading position in its targeted service. "The fact that DDH1 has been able to survive and emerge stronger during the recent downturn is a validation of the high quality and essential service that DDH1 provides to its clients." ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... is lower than the US$45.16 billion surplus achieved in the same month last year as exports expanded less than imports. Stronger global demand sent Chinese exports up by 11.3% in the year to June that followed an 8.7% increase in the previous month. This ...