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No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... qualified, you can't miss "December" in the minutes if you tried: "Most participants anticipated that, based on their assessment of the current economic situation and their outlook for economic activity, the labor market, and inflation, these conditions ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... unchanged at 0-0.1% and maintained JGB purchases at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion - the BOJ reiterated its positive assessment and outlook on the Japanese economy. "Japan's economy has continued to recover moderately... business fixed investment has ...

Zurich appoints political risk head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
Zurich has appointed the head of its Melbourne credit and political risk operations. Clive Mok joins the Melbourne office after working for Zurich for eight years in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he held roles at QBE and Gerling. Commenting on the growing ...

Multi-sector investments reach $555 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
Australians had more than $555 billion of managed fund assets invested in multi-sector investment trusts, superannuation funds, pensions and insurance bonds as at 31 July 2015, according to Morningstar. The researcher recently completed qualitative ...

ME and mutuals must embrace fintech

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
Australian mutuals are being encouraged to further embrace disruptive fintech and start-up solutions in a bid to capitalise on challenges faced by their bigger competitors. This is a key theme arising from KPMG's 2015 Mutuals Industry Review released ...

Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... whose movements are highly correlated with each other. And, when indicators provide disparate signals, the model's assessment of overall labor market conditions reflects primarily those indicators that are in broad agreement. The included indicators ...

BGL and CoreLogic release desktop SMSF property tool

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... CoreLogic RP Data have released a new self-managed super fund commercial property tool. The Commercial Property Desktop Assessment was designed for SMSF administrators to process property assessments through BGL's Simple Fund platform, generating a PDF ...

CBA whistleblower flags unfair compensation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... been accused of severely mishandling its Open Advice Review program by a former employee. Former Open Advice Review assessment manager Russell Phillips alleged at the Senate Standing Committees on Economics Scrutiny of Financial Advice public hearing ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... October, while the Expectations Index edged down to 88.0 from 90.8 in September. "Consumers were less positive in their assessment of present-day conditions, in particular the job market, and were moderately less optimistic about the short-term outlook. ...

SQM gives high marks to William Blair fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... based investment opportunities." SQM also said that William Blair's fund employed "sophisticated valuation and risk assessment processes that drive asset allocation and seeks strong returns with some moderation of the downside [and] has an absolute return ...