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Actuaries Institute names new president

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... appointed to the post in January 2020. Gibbs is a partner at KPMG specialising in general insurance. He joined the firm in October 2000 based in London and then relocated to the Sydney office two years later. He previously worked at Willis Towers Watson. ...

Financial services least trusted industry: Edelman

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... with 68% and 66% public trust respectively. The Edelman Trust Barometer surveyed 33,000 people in 28 countries between October and November 2020. Edelman suggested the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted consumer trust of corporates. For example, chief ...

Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... found employment in January - in line with market expectations. Though the monthly addition in jobs has slowed -- 180K in October, 90K in November and 50K in December - January marked the fourth straight month of employment gains. Not only that, Bjorn ...

ASIC to take targeted approach with PIP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... spoke about the regulators key priorities for the rollout of the design and distribution obligations (DDOs) scheduled for October this year. "DDOs are commencing on 5 October 2021 and represent a real step-change in financial services regulation," Hughes ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... employment in December - in line with market expectations. Though the monthly addition in jobs has slowed from 180,000 in October and 90,000 in November, it remains a great feat when placed in the context of the resurgence in domestic and overseas coronavirus ...

Banks return $1.2bn for bad advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... follows on $43 million, Westpac on $42 million, AMP on $33 million and CBA on $9 million. Macquarie was not included. In October 2016 ASIC released findings describing systemic failures in the advice divisions of AMP, ANZ, CBA and NAB, as well as some ...

The trouble with best financial interests duty

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... necessary as it is essentially doubling up. The panel and the broader industry, since the package of reforms was introduced in October 2020, concur that guidance and direction for part four was fairly light. Christian Gergis, the head of policy at the ...

Northern Trust hires from Dimensional

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... regional director for the institutional and wealth channels in the global client group at Dimensional Fund Advisors. In October 2020, the business snagged a $5 billion allocation from ANZ Investments in New Zealand across three asset classes: international ...

Another glitch for the ASX

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... agencies. This is not the first time the announcement delays have occurred since the launch of the ASX's new website. Back in October last year, all market sensitive announcements were unavailable on the day of the launch. Next in November, the ASX Trade ...

Wingate appoints private markets head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... colleagues." Wingate is a private debt investment house with over 170 employees and offices in Sydney and Melbourne. In October 2020 Wingate bolstered its property team with the appointment of a new head of direct property, building on its property platform ...