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Tax concessions, infrastructure in focus for budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
The Prime Minister has given an indication of what will be revealed in next week's federal budget with a focus on tax cuts and increased infrastructure spending. Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave the insight during his National Press Club address ...

New deputy Aussie equities head at Aberdeen Standard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... she worked at Rothschild in investment banking, Coca Cola Amatil in corporate strategy and Royal & Sun Alliance in group finance. In another promotion, Camille Simeon is moving to investment director after 12 years on the team. She joined Aberdeen in ...

Shariah-compliant ETF launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... with Shariah principles overseen by a panel of scholars from Amanie Advisors, an advisory firm specialising in Islamic finance solutions. Shariah-compliant investing involves following a set of principles that includes not charging any form of interest ...

New chair of CPA Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Corporation and the RACV as well as TarraWarra Museum of Art. "Merran has considerable expertise in corporate governance, finance, audit, risk and compliance. She is particularly focused on aligning performance management with strategy, and in financial ...

Court blocks bid to freeze Phil Kingston's assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... lender to freeze the assets of Phil Kingston, as the latter heads towards public questioning next month. China Insurance Finance Group Ltd commenced court proceedings on August 24, seeking repayment of a debt it says Kingston-related companies defaulted ...

Challenger loses chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... in 2012 as chief financial officer has been responsible for leading Challenger's Business Services division including finance, investor relations, treasury, operations and information technology. Prior to joining Challenger, Tobin was general manager ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
For the fourth year in a row, Australia has ranked in the top 10 countries in the world for retirement outcomes but the impact of the pandemic will be felt for some time, new research from Natixis Investment Managers shows. Australia nabbed the seventh ...

Fintech appoints country head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... appointed Tim Poskitt as country manager for Australian and New Zealand operations. He was previously head of alternative finance and fintech at illion. Earlier in Poskitt's career he worked in global banking for HSBC and in corporate banking for Barclays. ...

AXA IM country head exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... for the core business unit in August. The newly established alternatives business encompasses real assets, structured finance and hedge fund business Chorus. Ben Taylor was named director of client group for this division in May this year.

Cbus appoints new investment leadership role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... recovery from COVID-19. It has also allocated a further $850 million to its debt portfolio to invest in companies and project finance.