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Phillip Kingston resigns from GrowthOps board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
Phillip Kingston has resigned from the board of ASX-listed Trimantium GrowthOps, as his Sargon Capital venture stays in receivership. GrowthOps provides services in creative, technology, coaching and leadership, according to ASX filings. Kingston is ...

Sargon runs out of steam

KANIKA SOOD, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
Philip Kingston's Sargon has been forced into external administration by one if its Chinese creditors. In a statement to Financial Standard, Sargon said one of its creditors, Chinese state-owned insurance company Taiping Trustees has appointed McGrathNicol ...

BlackRock shuts ASX-listed ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
BlackRock has informed investors of its plans to wind up an ASX-listed exchange traded fund following lacklustre demand. The iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (ITW) started trading in Australia in November 2007 and at the end of last year had $5.65 million in ...

Chief economist update: Turn the beat around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside Aladdin's lamp. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation inched to 1.8% in the year to the December ...

Financial Standard Holiday Cooking Guide 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... sharp knife to score the skin around the sides and hock of the ham, before using your fingers to gently remove the rind. Trim any excess fat. Wrap the hock of the ham with non-stick baking paper followed by aluminium foil. Place the ham, top-side down ...

Industry fund awards mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
Two global managers have won mandates from a $9.5 billion superannuation fund totaling up to $150 million. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund has made an allocation to emerging market debt in hard currency. The managers winning the ...

CFS culls grandfathered commissions, slashes fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
About 6000 financial advisers are set to lose $1700 per year in revenue, as Colonial First State starts to put grandfathered commissions to bed. The $145 billion manager is starting the phase out of grandfathered commissions with a small slice of the ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
The RBA's growth and inflation forecasts and the Taylor Rule calls for just one more rate cut next year. So there we have it ladies and gents, the answer to every Australian's question du jour, how low will domestic interest rates go? I posed ...

Retail fund renews insurer, cuts premiums

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
A retail superannuation fund has reappointed OnePath as its insurer, and is trimming premiums by about 20%. Virgin Money Super has renewed OnePath Life for three years starting December 1. The mandate is for death, total and permanent disablement (TPD) ...

The AUD is key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
I painted a picture of the latest domestic surveys and stats last week arguing that the RBA would need to cut interest rates some more to try and reverse the trend deterioration in the domestic economy. In it I briefly touched on the Australian dollar ...