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Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... Minister Johnson announced a national lockdown starting on January 4 that is expected to stay in place until the middle of February this year. But as Cabinet minister Michael Gove warned: "We can't predict with certainty that we will be able to lift ...

Sydney boutique hires former Franklin PM

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... opportunities..." Nanuk chief investment officer Tom King said. Franklin Resources (the parent company for Franklin Templeton) in February 2020 entered an agreement to acquire Legg Mason for $6.7 billion. The acquisition was completed in August 2020 ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... currently projected." What a difference a few months make. The World Health Organisation (WHO) named the virus COVID-19 on February 11 last year and declared it a pandemic exactly a month after on 11 March 2020. No need to narrate and describe what happened ...

FASEA urges advisers to maximise exam sittings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... three opportunities to pass the exam before the end of the transition period. "The January exam runs from 28 January to 2 February (with bookings closing on 8 January). The March exam runs from 25 March to 30 March (with bookings closing on 5 March)," ...

AMG Super rebrands divisions to cut costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... are in a process of a significant product consolidation project. Emplus is the first part that is rebranding [effective February 19], but the plan is Freedom of Choice division will also merge into AMG division. Consolidating the different products into ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... end of the year reading for the expectations index, at 87.5, remains below the pre-pandemic score of 106.1 recorded in February 2020.

Arowana winds up LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... was still considering winding up the LIC. The board recently announced it will hold an extraordinary general meeting on February 4 to put forth resolutions to wind up CVF. During FY20, the global economic shocks of COVID-19 resulted in "disappointing" ...

Hostplus axes manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... investment option. Investors in the Balanced Equity Management option will have to select a different investment option by 8 February 2021. If members do not select a new option they will automatically be switched into Hostplus' Australian shares ...

Former adviser pleads guilty to theft, dishonesty

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... transferred it to accounts for his own benefit instead of returning them to clients. Flowers was previously made bankrupt in February 2012, and permanently disqualified from providing financial services and banned from engaging in credit activities in ...

Jail time for tax adviser

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... lodging thousands of tax returns for customers while completely unregistered. The TPB acted on the information and by February 2019 had launched a Federal Court action against Hacker and his two companies.?? Hacker committed to the Federal Court that ...