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Former ClearView chair joins CountPlus

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
Countplus boosted its board to six members with the appointment of a new non-executive director. Raymond Kellerman joins the ASX-listed Count Financial while also sitting on the boards of Goodman Funds Management, Foundation Life and Ryder Capital. ...

Energy fuels US cross-border inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... propelled by a 7.7% surge in energy prices but the more closely-watched agricultural export prices dropped by 0.3%. The latest figure takes the year-on-year growth rate in export prices up to 1.1% -- the first positive reading in more than two year (August ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... especially in the Eurozone where we're going to see 50% of the population in Europe voting. The UK is going to have to figure out how it will divorce itself from the Euro this year. That all adds up to a lot of uncertainty," he said. At home, Craig characterises ...

Offline Australian retail sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
The 0.2% increase in domestic retail spending in November wasn't in line with market expectations for a 0.4% gain that's for sure. This slowed the annual growth rate in retail spending to 3.3% from 3.5% in October. But I wonder whether Australians' ...

US at full employment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... year to December - the highest in the current cycle - from 2.5% in the previous month. Economists think that the magic figure when this starts flowing through into inflation is 3%.

Sydney planners topping salary figures

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... Robert Walters Salary Survey found that Sydney planners can expect to earn up to $160,000 annually; the highest reported figure in Melbourne was $125,000 and $120,000 in Adelaide. All three saw a base salary expectation of $80,000 with Melbourne rising ...

BT doubles wrap market share

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
Master funds grew $57.9 billion in the year to 30 September 2016, now totalling $713.4 billion. According to the latest figures from Strategic Insight, the surge was largely driven by a strong September quarter which saw funds under management rise ...

Defining DB for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
... questions around the $1.6 million transfer balance cap, with Howard putting this down to ongoing confusion about what the figure means and a misunderstanding that it refers to a limit around how much can be saved in superannuation. "The $1.6 million ...

Guest of honour

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
The Commonwealth Bank asked Barry Lambert to stay on as chair of Count Financial for two years following the bank's acquisition - he asked them for two years and two months. Confused, the bank asked him why. He told them, "If I stay on until January ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.61 million units in November from 5.57 million units in the previous month. The latest figure is the highest level since February 2007 and is better than consensus expectations for a 1.0% fall to 5.5 million units. ...