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Bennelong launches new fund, hires analyst

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
Bennelong Australian Equity Partners is launching a new fund, recruiting a member of the Ausbil micro-cap team to assist in its management. The new Bennelong Emerging Companies Fund will invest primarily in micro and small capitalisation stocks listed ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
The just-released RBA Financial Aggregates report for May show that Australia's credit state of affairs continues. Total private sector credit growth inched up from 4.9% in the year to April to 5% last month. While this put a stop to the four straight ...

New cash fund targets retirees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
Trilogy Funds Management launched a new cash trust targeting an expected return of 4.25% per annum. Trilogy Funds executive director John Barry said the Trilogy Enhanced Cash trust is a low risk, capital stable investment ideal for retirees or for those ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
Houston, do we have a problem? Oil has. It's back in a bear market - with the price of both the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent dropping by more than 20% from this year's highs. WTI oil edged up a little to US$42.73/barrel overnight after dropping ...

Decumulation will drive investment focus shift: AXA IM

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
Institutional investors are shifting investment strategies in search of income generation and inflation protection over the long term in response to the advent of the superannuation decumulation phase, AXA Investment Managers believes. According to ...

ASIC enters new era as industry funding model passes

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
The ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill 2017, which will enable the regulator to recoup costs from the industries it supervises, has been passed into law. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said the passing of the bill reflects ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Hip, hip! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'Business Indicators' report (released yesterday) eased growing concerns that tomorrow's National Accounts would show that the Australian economy weakened sharply - if not outright contracted -- in ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), representing $1.5 trillion in funds under management, has condemned US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump justified the ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
You've all heard, read and googled the news - the Australian dollar is taking a battering and is headed down, down. I first came across this when I read Michael Wilson's piece on Bloomberg, "The Australian Dollar's Outlook Darkens" (16 May). Back then ...