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APRA takes action against Westpac

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
The prudential regulator has launched action against Westpac over material breaches of liquidity standards. The breaches, which were identified during 2019 and 2020, relate to the incorrect treatment of specific funding and loan products for the purposes ...

Challenger seeks new life chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
Challenger is searching for a new chief executive for its life business, as the incumbent moves to a new role in its group leadership team. Chris Plater has been the life business' chief executive for four years, when he took over the role from ...

AMP Capital drops fees on listed property fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
AMP Capital has dropped the management fee its $126 million Listed Property Trusts Fund by 18 bps. The fund, which invests in REITs and stocks of real estate related sectors, is dropping from 0.97% per year in management fees to 0.79% per year. The ...

Life insurance performance plummets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
The life insurance industry has continued to take a hit to profit, with risk products reporting significant losses. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) latest quarterly life insurance performance statistics paint a bleak picture ...

Chief economist update: Australian capex in COVID-19's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
It wasn't that long ago when financial markets expended much speculation on the outcome of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) "Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure" quarterly survey, for not only does it provide an ...

Investment Trends names chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
Investment Trends has confirmed the appointment of a new chief executive, whose resume includes roles with MLC Life, Mortgage Choice and AMP Superannuation. The research house has appointed Sarah Brennan as chief executive, replacing Michael Blomfield ...

Magellan axes currency hedging in trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
A Magellan trust has removed its currency hedging strategy to reduce the downside risk to the portfolio when equity markets and the value of the Australian dollar are both declining. Magellan High Conviction Trust will move to an unhedged approach to ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett History is again bearing witness to the "Sage of Omaha's" widely-known investing principle for who would have dreamed that the US equity market would rally ...

Super sneaks back to $3tn in assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
Superannuation assets totaled $2.9 trillion at the end of the September 2020 quarter, according to the latest statistics from APRA. Despite the effects of the government's early release of super scheme, coupled with market volatility and a sharp economic ...

JobKeeper saved 700,000 jobs: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
One in five Australians who received the JobKeeper payment would not have stayed employed this year without it, according to a research paper from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The Morrison government announced a series of fiscal measures at ...