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Law firm demands Pahari documents from AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... allegedly perpetrated by Pahari. Szlakowski was in charge of the North American distribution for AMP Capital's infrastructure debt and equity strategies in 2016, reporting to Pahari who was then global head and managing partner of infrastructure equity ...

Perpetual profits plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... which underlines "the importance of our diversified business model" according to Adams. "The strong results achieved by our debt market services and data and analytics solutions businesses was driven by growth in private balance sheet securitisation ...

New 'cash plus' style sovereign bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... has launched an absolute return fixed income fund aiming to deliver 2.5% above cash rate while investing only in sovereign debt. The CC JCB Dynamic Alpha fund will hold high-grade sovereign bonds from G7 nations and Australia, with an average credit ...

Westpac ditches dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
Westpac has become the first of the big four banks to not deliver a dividend in its first half results as it reported a net profit of $595 million and revealed it anticipates further enforcement action from ASIC. Westpac chief executive Peter King said ...

Tax fraud goes from paradise to prison

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
A key promoter of a tax evasion scheme who had been living in Vanuatu for several years to avoid arrest has been jailed for six years following a 19-year joint investigation by the ATO and Australian Federal Police. Philip Northam was sentenced in the ...

40% of ERS applicants not eligible: illion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... additional spending was on discretionary items such as clothing, furniture, restaurants and alcohol," illion said. "Spending on debt repayments has dropped slightly since the first round of early super withdrawal (14% to 12%), and there has been an increase ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... issues. "Many people who have developed a mental health condition and made a life insurance claim have families, mortgages and debt like anyone and should have the ability to choose where their benefit is spent," she said.

Schroders appoints head of private debt

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Schroders has hired from RBC to appoint a head of private debt for Australia, as it builds out a private assets offering for local investors. Nicole Kidd was previously RBC's head of corporate banking Australia and institutional client management ...

Platform business in administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... his resignation in February this year. He bought back Wealthtrac from Spitfire in a management buyout in April, funded by debt. "Wealthtrac's business is primarily super and pension, and Spitfire put on the backburner developing a super product, which ...

Asset managers still bearish, but less so

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... inflationary scenario in which central banks are unable to hike interest rates due to the unprecedented amount of outstanding debt in the economy," it said. "Risk managers are seeking robust portfolios that are more attuned to - and better able to navigate ...