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Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... Metrics Credit Partners has added three to its investment team, after acquiring a slice of Investec's Australian assets in March. Mathew Fulton, Marc Hurwitz and are joining Metrics as investment directors. Both are former members of the Investec Australia ...

Hostplus holds on to MySuper top spot

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... single-strategy options, Hostplus came out on the top with 24.4% in the year to April end. Hostplus' returns made a comeback in March. It was followed by AustralianSuper (20.4%), Cbus and Vision Super (19.4% each) and TWUSuper (19.1%). In last year's ...

Halifax auditors face criminal charges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... $52,500 for the charge against EC Audit. Halifax was placed into administration in November 2018 and entered liquidation in March 2019. ASIC cancelled its AFSL in January 2021. The regulator had been looking into the company for some time, with ASIC ...

CFAs not immune to pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... resilient during the pandemic. CFA Institute surveyed 4600 investment professionals from its member base across 120 markets in March and April 2021 for its Future of Work in Investment Management report. It found 15% of the respondents had a COVID-related ...

ASIC bans adviser over $5m fraud

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... comes almost a year after Sentinel first lodged a breach notification with ASIC in relation to Fineff's behaviour on 25 March 2020.

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... thank you very much. There's the cheque for US$1200 per person (plus US$500 per child) issued under the CARES Act in March 2020; there's the cheque for US$600 per person (US$600 per child) announced in December 2020; there's the US$1400 per ...

Super fee squeeze continues

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
Fifty-six superannuation products dropped their fees in the March quarter, according to Rainmaker Information's analysis of 475 product disclosure statements. Overall, 152 superannuation products updated their PDS's between January and March 2021. Of ...

Chief economist update: A delicate balancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... growth forecast to by 5.8% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. This compares with the 5.6% and 4.0%, respectively, it forecast in March and a sharp upgrade from the 4.2% (for 2021) and 3.7% (for 2022) predicted in its December 2020 report. The price of Brent ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'National Accounts' show the Australian economy expanded by 1.8% in the March 2021 quarter - the third consecutive quarter of growth since the pandemic-induced recession in the March and June quarters ...

State Super rejigs defensives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... he considered while making the allocations were: an acceptable level of returns, a distribution component and liquidity. "March 2020 was a really good example. Structured products - even though they are AAA rated were hard to liquidate at a reasonable ...