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Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
"We have to take the economy through the pandemic and into a recovery phase, which has now started. We need to really anchor the recovery. We always talk about inflation anchoring and we are not oblivious to that. But the recovery needs to be firm ...

Macquarie sweeps Investment Leadership Awards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
Macquarie Investment Management took home six awards at Financial Standard 's Investment Leadership Awards held at Sydney's Luna Park last night. Macquarie IM won the highly coveted Investment Manager of the Year award, making this the third ...

LIC restructures to ETMF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
In a very rare move, a listed investment company has restructured to become an exchange traded managed fund - listing on the ASX today. The Monash Absolute Investment Company (MA1) has been restructured to become the Monash Absolute Active Trust (MAAT ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
Inflation? What inflation? We need inflation. While many, if not most, of its central bank peers - led by the Fed -- are pushing back against inflation concerns, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) cannot seem to drive growth in the country's consumer prices ...

Sunsuper, QSuper appoint leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
The bulk of the executive lineup that will lead Sunsuper and QSuper post-merger has been named. In addition to Bernard Reilly as chief executive, eight more executives have been appointed to lead the merged fund following all relevant approvals. Most ...

Hostplus holds on to MySuper top spot

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
Hostplus remained the best performing single-strategy MySuper option in the year ending April, as superannuation's rebound continued. The Rainmaker MySuper Index returned 18.7% in the 12 months to April. The month's returns were 70bps lower ...

Halifax auditors face criminal charges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
Audits of defunct stockbroker Halifax have resulted in the first criminal charges ever laid in Australia for failure to comply with auditing standards. EC Audit and its director Robert Evett have been charged with breaches of auditing standards and ...

CFAs not immune to pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
About 15% of CFAs working as investment professionals had a pay cut related to COVID-19, according to a new survey that says pay remained relatively resilient during the pandemic. CFA Institute surveyed 4600 investment professionals from its member ...

ASIC bans adviser over $5m fraud

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
ASIC has permanently banned former Sentinel Wealth financial adviser Gavin Fineff, after he was charged with misappropriating between $3.3 and $5 million of client money. On May 7, Fineff was arrested and charged by New South Wales Police with 18 offences ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
The US dollar weakened, so too did the yield on 10-year US Treasuries while the equity market's benchmark indices closed on the up and up as inflation expectations in Uncle Sam's county eased, calming concerns that the US Federal Reserve would ...