Record housing wealth; watchful Reserve Bank

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RBA Board Minutes; Residential Property Price Indexes Record home values: The total value of Australia’s 10.6 million dwellings was a record $7,724.4 billion in the December quarter with the average... Read more continue reading

Kearney Group provides start-up funding for Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin

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Scholar and author of Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta, gets the green light to develop an Indigenous Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Deakin University, with seed funding from a leading financial services... Read more continue reading

AMP announces new MyNorth partnered managed portfolios

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AMP has partnered with leading Queensland advice practice Coral Coast, and Mercer, to create a new range of partnered managed portfolios. The five new diversified risk-based portfolios, tailored to the... Read more continue reading

Australian Ratings announces sale of investment ratings division to Foresight Analytics

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Australia Ratings Pty Ltd (Australia Ratings) has announced the sale of its investment ratings division, Australia Ratings Analytics Pty Ltd (ARA) to Sydney-based Foresight Analytics Pty Ltd (Foresight). ARA was... Read more continue reading

Sometimes it pays to cut the flowers and plant a few seeds

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Retail investors have been increasingly rewarded with solid investment returns over the last year because of retailers benefiting from a ‘COVID spending economy’, a trend that Forager Fund Management believes... Read more continue reading

Nexon’s multimillion-dollar agreement with Ord Minnett

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Leading cloud and managed service provider Nexon Asia Pacific (Nexon) has secured a multimillion-dollar multi-year agreement with Ord Minnett to transition the company’s existing IT services to a completely new technology stack without downtime.... Read more continue reading

Zenith Investment Partners acquires asset allocation specialist

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Zenith Investment Partners has announced the acquisition of Heuristic Investment Systems from its management. Heuristic Investment Systems (Heuristics) has been delivering investment strategy and asset allocation consulting services to its... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 12 March, 2021

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rebounded over the last week as bond markets settled down a bit helped by central bank action and as... Read more continue reading

The retail investing market grows at pace as Australians respond to changing macro conditions and embrace new digital investing solutions

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Leading research firm Investment Trends has launched its 2020 2H Online Investing Report, an in-depth study of the attitudes and preferences of online equities and ETF investors in Australia. At... Read more continue reading

BNPL Code – to B or not to B a member?

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The Australian Finance Industry Association (AFIA) has released a new voluntary Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Code (Code) to address criticism that the industry is under-regulated and to enhance consumer... Read more continue reading