Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 901 - 910 of 2932 results for "Little"

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... FY2017/18 growth forecast of 2.75%-3.75% (ScoMo's prediction should be largely in line with this) before heading to "a little above 3%". Last week's AiG PMI report show increasing expansion in the sectors it surveys - manufacturing up to 59.2 in April ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... territory. Governor Lowe's statement about the Australian outlook says: "The Bank's forecasts for the Australian economy are little changed. Growth is expected to increase gradually over the next couple of years to a little above 3%." All well and good ...

Pre-retirees robbing Peter to pay Paul: REST

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... the other end for your parents - robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's never too early to start earning and to start saving a little bit more."

Investors paying more for less: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... managers, 70% (£262,000) for global equity managers and 27% (£40,000) for UK corporate bond managers. LCP also found little evidence that managers charging higher headline fees actually delivered proportional returns. "Even if the manager achieved ...

Opposition floats SMSF borrowing ban

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... system and crowd out more first home owners." The SMSF Association has hit back against the policy, saying that there is little or no evidence that the use of limited recourse borrowing arrangements by SMSFs is playing a significant role in affecting ...

Growth maintains momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
While there's little progress over inflation, it actually reversed in March - headline CPI inflation down to 1.5% from 2.0% in February; core inflation down to 0.7% from 0.9% -- latest data indicate that growth in the Eurozone continues to gain momentum. ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... equities, and as such the importance as a class of investor remains large. "However, the past 24 months have seen very little growth in their assets, which now stand at $6.6tn. This is evidence of the wide range of factors that are affecting various ...

Former BTFG manager joins Synchron

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... majority of her career with BTFG as a state manager for more than six years and as a business development manager for a little over a decade. Wright left in 2007 to take on the role of state manager of superannuation and structured products at Perpetual ...

LGS reinstates responsible investing restrictions

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... the rapid expansion of the renewable energy sector, which provides a range of investment opportunities in contrast to the little-to-no growth in the nuclear energy space. "We are seeing great opportunities in renewable energy, for example, in the area ...

Coles sheds life insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... SelectingSuper insurance group insurance benchmarks. In May 2014, Coles introduced "new affordable life insurance, starting at as little as $1 a week" including its 'price beat' guarantee, underwritten by MetLife, in what then-Coles Finance director ...