Talaria Capital added to CFS platform

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Talaria Capital‘s award-winning Global Equity Fund has been added to the Colonial First State (CFS) FirstChoice platform. Talaria’s CEO Jamie Mead said the CFS mandate is another important milestone in the... Read more continue reading

Petrol prices ease below $2 a litre, OPEC+ meets

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Weekly oil market update Last week, the benchmark Singapore gasoline price fell by US$2.92 or 1.9 per cent US$154.28 a barrel, down from a record high of US$157.20 a barrel.... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic and market update – week ending 27 May, 2022

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Investment markets and key developments Share markets saw a bit of relief in the past week – bouncing of oversold lows helped by less hawkish than feared comments from the... Read more continue reading

ANZIIF launch ‘Making a Difference’ Awards for New Zealand

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ANZIIF is proud to announce the launch of the ‘Making a Difference’ Awards and wide-ranging in-person event programme in New Zealand for 2022. This year’s ‘Making a Difference’ Awards highlight... Read more continue reading

State Street Global Investor Confidence Index – up overall, but mixed across regions amid rate hikes, war and pandemic

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State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for May 2022. Despite recent market fluctuations, the Global Investor Confidence Index saw an... Read more continue reading

Federal Open Markets Committee, European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of New Zealand movements

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Federal Open Markets Committee minutes underscore The US Federal Reserve’s aggression Prior to the release overnight of the Fed’s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes there had been some... Read more continue reading

BT Super and Mercer Super announce planned merger to deliver better retirement outcomes for Australians 

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The BT Super Board and Mercer has announced they had signed a Heads of Agreement to merge BT’s Personal and Corporate superannuation funds into the Mercer Super Trust to create... Read more continue reading

LEI consultation highlights ASIC’s push for greater global alignment

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A new consultation paper by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will facilitate increased global regulatory harmony for Australian derivative transaction reporting through the adoption of international best practice,... Read more continue reading

Building costs soar by the most in more than 21 years 

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Construction work done; Skilled job vacancies; RBA speech The value of construction work done fell by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter but it was still up 1.4 per... Read more continue reading

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” – A review of the decision in ASIC V Ri Ad

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On 5 May 2021, the Federal Court handed down a landmark decision in Australian Securities and Investments Commission v RI Advice Group Pty Ltd (2022) FCA 496 by declaring that... Read more continue reading