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FTSE Russell creates new China index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016

Government lagging on super policy: Labor

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
Labor has named three key benchmarks that it will use to analyse the Federal Government's superannuation policy, arguing that the government needs to put its policy on the table for fair evaluation. Speaking at the FSC BT Political Breakfast series ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
Australian retail sales Retail spending showed no change in the month of February. This is lower than market expectations for a 0.4% lift, marking the third month in a row of disappointing retail sales - up 0.3% in January versus expectations for a ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Quantitative easing. Negative interest rates. Quantitative and Qualitative easing with a negative interest rate. All of the above plus promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US ...

Decimal launches insto robo-advice packages

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Decimal has launched two robo-advice tools aimed at the institutional sector. The first, Eqilize, is aimed at providing a rapid and simple robo-advice service for superannuation funds and other large institutions; it comes "preconfigured" and, in Decimal ...

La Trobe P2P option gets SQM rating

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Ratings organisation SQM Research has given La Trobe Financial's Peer-to-Peer (P2P) investment option with a superior 4 star rating. SQM Research head Louis Christopher said: "The fund has outperformed the peer group and SQM Research's comparative benchmark ...

BondAdviser launches new portfolio on HUB24

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
BondAdviser has launched a new fixed income managed portfolio on HUB24 and claims it is the first managed portfolio available to advisers to include Exchange Traded Bond units (XTBs) on an SMA platform. The BondAdviser Income Plus Portfolio is designed ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Australia private sector credit The A$ has weakened slightly after climbing to a nine-month high of US$0.7723 overnight. But at the latest exchange of US$0.7667, it remains 5.0% higher than its level at the start of 2016 and 11.7% up from this year's ...

Industry groups slam SEC plan to limit derivatives

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
US industry groups have hit back at a proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to try to limit investors' exposure to risk. In December Mary Jo White, the chair of the US corporate watchdog said a funds' use of certain instruments can ...

State Street acquires GE Asset Management

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
State Street Corporation has agreed to acquire GE Asset Management from GE for a total purchase price of up to $485 million. The acquisition is expected to increase State Street Global Advisor's (SSGA) assets under management by approximately $100 billion ...