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As clear as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
Seven in two. Seven Fed officials over the past two days have spoken, putting forward their individual rationales over the rationality or not of the Fed's ongoing path towards normalisation given the prevailing strong growth/labour market and below ...

State Street introduces machine learning tool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
State Street has launched a machine learning solution to help investment professionals wade through the plethora of research reports they receive on a daily basis. Through the combination of machine learning and human expertise, the new Quantextual ...

ASX on track for blockchain announcement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
The ASX's potential rollout of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) is well on track, chief executive Dominic Stevens told the exchange's annual general meeting today. An official announcement to determine the suitability of DLT to replace ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
While most of the world's biggest central banks have embraced uber-transparency, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears to still be subscribing to "fedspeak". It's still keeping Australians in the dark about its next policy movement. In its September ...

Frontier Advisors chief executive resigns

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
Frontier Advisors chief executive Damian Moloney has resigned after six years at the helm of one of Australia's largest asset consultants. Moloney assumed the role of chief executive in July 2011, at a time when the firm and the asset consulting sector ...

BEAR cracks down on executive pay

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
The Banking Executive Accountability Regime draft legislation could force banks to defer a large portion of executives' remuneration if they breach accountability obligations. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Banking Executive Accountability and Related ...

Kinetic Super CIO departs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
Kinetic Super chief investment officer Paul Kessell is departing after more than nine years of service and following the fund's decision to merge with Sunsuper. Kessell was a founding member of Kinetic Super's investment team and played a pivotal role ...

More time needed for TBAR transition: SMSFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
The SMSF Association is calling on the Australian Taxation Office to give SMSF trustees more time to adjust to the new Transfer Balance Account Report requirements, echoing member sentiment. In its submission to the ATO's Transfer Balance Cap and SMSF ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
Oh drat! There were few events last week to provide a nice entry point to equity markets, ones that could instil caution, if not fear, enough for some to trim their holdings and cheapen share prices. But alas! Most share markets closed stronger. These ...

Multi-member SMSFs shun risky investments: Research

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
The greater the number of members in a self-managed superannuation fund, the more risk averse they become, according to latest research. A joint report from SuperConcepts and the University of Adelaide's International Centre for Financial Services reveals ...