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NAB remediation bill grows

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... business, which will be reported as a separate segment called MLC Wealth and no longer form part of consumer banking. In February, NAB warned of a delay in the offloading of MLC Wealth and said that due to the "challenging business environment" the separation ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... dive in activity indicators: Fixed asset investment dropped by 16.1% in the year to March after plummeting by 24.5 in February; industrial production's 13.5% dive in Feb was followed by a 1.1% decline in March; and, retail sales slumped by 20.5% and ...

MLC Life executive joins AFCA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... Cameron, who joined MLC Life in June 2017 as chief claims officer before being appointed chief of customer operations in February 2019 will link with the authority in June. She is also the former chief executive of AIA New Zealand, and has previously ...

Chief economist update: Surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... in March and the unemployment rate ticked up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie 0.1 percentage point to 5.2% from 5.1% in February. It's a beaut! Even prettier when compared with the 701,000 jobs lost in America over the same month that sent its unemployment ...

APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... that was a reverse in the trend," Fleming said. Fleming said that when concerns over COVID-19 hit, around January and February this year, the ATO saw an increase in net establishments of 15.5% year-on-year, marking a 10% increase from the six-month prior ...

Tail-risk hedging pays off for super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... Index is estimated to have increased to £135.9 billion at the end of March 2020, from £124.6 billion at the end of February 2020. Out of the 5422 occupational defined benefit schemes Pension Protection Fund looked at in the UK just 1816 are in surplus. ...

Pension pots around the world during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... Fund 7800 Index's deficit between assets and liabilities swelled by about $19.8 billion (£10 billion) between end of February and March end.

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
US stocks ended in a sea of red on Wednesday as bleak economic data and corporate losses shifted what had been an almost eerily optimistic sentiment towards trade over the last few weeks. US markets had made somewhat of a recovery of late, with the ...

IOOF trims operations

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... promote three general managers to the c-suite after it finally acquired ANZ's Pensions and Investments business in February. At the time, Mota said IOOF's new-look leadership was designed to better align its teams and reflect the deal finally ...

Former Wallaby banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... ASIC first banned Poidevin in November 2017, but the banning order was stayed by the AAT pending an appeal decision in February 2018. According to Poidevin's LinkedIn, he maintained his position at Bell Potter until last month and is now the president ...