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Chief economist update: V in US recovery at risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... betterer and betterer. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.37 million in August - in line with market expectations and marked the fourth straight month of increase in employment. While the BLS notes ...

ASIC bans crypto scammer

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... John Louis Anthony Bigatton has copped the banning; with the regulator noting its investigation was still ongoing. Between august 2017 and January 2018, Bigatton served as the Australian national representative of online cryptocurrency platform BitConnect ...

Super fund expands investment exclusions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... investment option changes. The fund also announced a number of investment changes, in addition to the ones it announced in mid-August. From 1 October 2020, the HESTA and HESTA Personal Super Product Disclosure Statements have been updated to remove the ...

Count Financial faces class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... Alderman in the Federal Court of Australia relate to commissions paid to Count Financial and its financial advisers from 21 August 2014 to 21 August 2020. The class action has come off the back of Count Financial's misconduct revealed in the Royal ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top despite recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... the IHS/CIPS purchasing managers indices (PMI). The composite PMI continues to strengthen, rising to a reading of 59.1 in August - a 72-month high and the fourth straight month of improvement since the record low reading of 13.8 recorded in April - as ...

Vanguard fund drops "cash plus" name

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... Management which renamed to "short term fixed income". [Legg Mason has since been acquired by Franklin Templeton, effective August 3] Such funds started their lives in the 90s, investing conservatively and closer to cash than they do now. As the debt ...

ASIC restrains Mawhinney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... four month old daughter leaving the country, they could have asked for his passport," Mayfair 101 said in a statement in August. In court documents seeking these orders, ASIC provided some insight into Mawhinney's personal financial situation. According ...

Chief economist update: AUD on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... pandemic" caveats on their forecasts - and the global economy is in recession. The A$/US$ exchange rate ended the month of August at US$0.7396 - the highest since late 2018, a 5.2% appreciation from the start of 2020 and a sharp 28.5% jump from the 17-year ...

ERS withdrawals surpass $32bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... surpasses $32 billion since the introduction of the government's Early Release of Super (ERS) scheme. Over the week to August 23, 59,000 applications were received by funds of which 35,000 were initial applications and 24,000 were repeat applications. ...

ASIC names operations, risk leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... the executive director of assessment and intelligence since January 2019. Prior to his appointment as operations chief in August, Day has worked across several senior leadership roles at ASIC. Day's nearly 17 years has covered departments that included ...