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Chief economist update: BOE not letting its guard down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
"At its meeting ending on 17 March 2021, the Committee judged that the existing stance of monetary policy remains appropriate. The MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.1%. The Committee voted unanimously for the Bank of England to maintain ...

Not-so-Zuper: Super disruptor folds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
Having failed to reach sufficient scale, the millennial superannuation fund will close its doors next month. Closed to new members as of March 10, existing Zuper members have now received word that the offering will cease to exist from April 30 - just ...

Harvey Kalman to leave Equity Trustees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
Equity Trustees' Harvey Kalman will leave the firm after over two decades. Kalman headed Equity Trustees' corporate trustee business until last September, when he moved to an international role. His new role was head of business development ...

Chief economist update: What a difference an Australian year makes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
"For all those times you stood by me... You're the one who held me up Never let me fall You're the one who saw me through it all." -Celine Dion What a difference a year makes, ey? The year 2020 started out disastrous (literally) for the country ...

NZ overhauls regulation of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
The way in which financial advice is regulated in New Zealand has changed, with a host of new requirements introduced and robo-advice now subjected to the same rules as advice delivered in person. From March 15, all providers of financial advice to ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
GDP growth of over 6% for 2021. Chinese premier Li Kequiang announced this target growth rate at the opening of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5. Many a time, China's annual economic growth ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
Ho-hum. So much for speculations over the Fed's thoughts and actions, Powell and Co. did what financial markets expected - nothing - at their 16-17 March FOMC meeting. "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at ...

Frontier hires from Cbus

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
Frontier has hired a senior portfolio manager from Cbus to lead its alternatives and derivatives team. Scott Pappas was most recently at Cbus as a senior portfolio manager in absolute return strategies. Prior to this, he worked as a part of Vanguard's ...

Westpac merges consumer, business divisions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
Westpac has announced it will combine the leadership of its consumer and business divisions to form a new consumer and business banking division, with one executive exiting the business. Westpac said the new division will be led by the current chief ...

Funds SA appoints director of asset allocation

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
The $37 billion public sector investment manager has appointed a director of asset allocation, hiring from Tcorp. Brendan Hallett will be responsible for leading the asset allocation team and will be deeply involved in developing investment strategy ...