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Chief economist update: Missing the burning forests for the surplus tree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... planning for worst-case scenarios rather than debating the science." The piece was published on November 14 last year, just a few weeks before the burning of Australia. The present wildfire crisis scorching the country might not be novel - we've ...

Acadian taps CFS executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... bring distribution in this space in-house for the first time," Hair said. "Acadian has been growing consistently over the past few years and is receiving increasing investor interest. With our focus on strong returns for risk, down-side protection and ...

Rising tensions to weigh on markets: Moody's

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... and Iran will avoid an outright military conflict," the report said. "However, the risks have markedly increased in the past few days. The credit implications of a military conflict, as we noted in 3 December research, would depend on its duration, scope ...

IOOF continues leadership reshuffle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... ASX-listed Spark New Zealand. According to Mota, the changes reflect the business's "step-change" in size and scale over the last few years, pointing to the now complete acquisition of ANZ's pensions and investments business. He added the firm needed ...

Financial Standard Holiday Cooking Guide 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... for a reasonable price. You could also just use a cane fruit basket or something like that with a tea towel in it. After a few hours it should have risen. The key to crusty bread is cooking the bread in a dutch oven or equivalent (such as a ceramic casserole ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The past year has served as the beginning of the superannuation industry's transformation. Yes, recent years have seen nothing but reform after reform, but 2019 has been something different entirely. The Productivity Commission and Royal Commission ...

Australians gifted new tech index

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... (GICS) definitions, with data backdated at least two years. Cunningham says a new tech index wouldn't have been possible a few years ago. "It would have been hard to do this five years ago because we wouldn't have had anywhere near the number of ...

Pendal appoints new licensee distribution lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... worked as a key account manager for most of her time with the investment manager. Rutter has been consulting for the past few months and was previously head of business development at Sargon. Prior to that, he spent several years in head of distribution ...

Super sector to dominate by 2034

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... functions such as transactions, unit pricing and member statements are becoming commodity services. They will be offered by a few specialist businesses with low fees based on volumes," Rice Warner said. "Conversely, the much larger super funds will insource ...

Pendal family office lead moves to boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... Management's head of sales for about three years. Regal is best known as a long/short equities manager and is one of the few that can take short positions in small caps. It has been expanding its remit to add other alternative investments, such as ...