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IOOF divests Australian Ethical

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... unethical behaviour in the Australian financial services industry in the past. It divested its $8.8 million stake in IOOF in January 2019, saying the decision was driven by IOOF's failure to put governance and conflicts management arrangements into ...

CalPERS chief investment officer resigns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... a new investment chief following the resignation of Yu (Ben) Meng. Meng was appointed to the lead investments role in January 2019 and, last financial year, achieved a return of 4.7% - beating its 4.3% benchmark despite the extreme volatility sparked ...

Dealmakers hold off investing in Australia

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... 40% said they will complete deals in Australia, particularly into the mid-market, in the year ahead, down from 65% in January 2020. Prior to the pandemic, dealmakers considered environmental and social activism surrounding the bushfires, as barriers ...

OneVue to take Taiping to court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... million from its 2018 sale of Diversa Trustees to Sargon Capital, which was forced into external administration in late January and then liquidation. OneVue this morning also updated on sale of Sargon operating businesses to now, Certes Corporation. ...

Adviser jailed over $2m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... be eligible for parole after serving four years. Miller was the director of CFS Private Wealth, which was wound up in January 2019 when Miller was banned from the financial services industry for 25 years. He was also disqualified from managing corporations ...

SelfWealth awards brokerage mandate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... that it says demonstrates the two fintech's shared objective of disrupting the status quo. The agreement will begin in January 2021 on a three-year term, with an option to extend upon mutual agreement. Since first partnering three years ago, the two ...

Insurers COVID-19 response slammed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... the industry has the ability to adapt to meet future events. This is why we have already extended the initiatives, to 1 January 2021."

Chief economist update: Gold 2000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts (July, September and October 2019). Gold prices surged from US$1282.10 an ounce in January 2019 to a high of US$1552.00/ounce in September before ending the year at US$1515.00 per ounce. Despite the strong upward ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... average)." Western Australia scored the worst in unemployment in CommSec's survey, recording its highest jobless rate since January 1994 (63% above the decade average). In five of the states and territories, construction work (including residential ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... came as Loane revealed that the FSC's life insurance initiatives to support those impacted by COVID-19 would extend until January 2021. Those initiatives include the commitment to ensure frontline healthcare workers would not be excluded from obtaining ...