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Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... estimated life expectancy. Based on projections, the group would potentially have no members left by December 2020. SCOA president Peter Illidge told Financial Standard that "less than a handful" of members are still working and several members are older ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... SI is headquartered in New York but has 10 additional offices across the globe. Strategic Insight chief executive and president Joel Mandelbaum said the acquisition is timely and will enable the firm to accelerate new product offerings. "Our clients ...

BlackRock to drop 500 staff

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... staff will be laid off in the coming weeks, the investment house has confirmed. In an internal memo to staff, BlackRock president Rob Kapito said growing market uncertainty and evolving investor preferences are driving the firm's decision to cull ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... said any attempt to dismantle such a "world-class" model would inevitably damage the performance of those funds. ACTU president and AustralianSuper alternate director Michele O'Neil said workers should always be represented in the superannuation system ...

Global iShares lead promoted, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... Financial Markets Advisory Group. Succeeding Wiedman is head of US wealth advisory Salim Ramji, reporting to BlackRock president Rob Kapito. Ramji joined BlackRock in 2014 as global head of corporate strategy. In this role he oversaw the distribution ...

Joint venture to set new ETF standard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... largest ETF and index manager to RBC Global Asset Management's line-up of index ETFs and index mutual funds," RBC GAM president Doug Coulter said. While the two firms remain separate legal entities, they will employ a unified distribution model and ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... next 12 months," he said. Investors' concerns centred on the tension between the world's major economies. US President Donald Trump's administration was a main concern for more than half (53%) of investors, followed by China's economy ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... activity in the services industry. We all know the why's and wherefores of this and its name is "Tariff Trump". US President Donald Trump's declaration of the 25/10 tariff on steel/aluminium on 1 March 2018 set the wheels of global economic activity ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... set off alarm bells that something must be wrong with the US and/or it has sacrificed its independence and kowtowed to President Donald Trump. But financial markets cannot have their cake and eat it too. The Fed disappointed expectations for only a single ...

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... whether emerging markets are in contagion. He believes Brazil's story will prove this to be a myth - especially as new President Jair Bolsonaro begins in January and will deliver reforms that begin to change the direction of GDP in the longer term ...