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Super fund chief to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
The long-serving chief executive of an industry superannuation fund has announced their intention to retire. Bill McRobert will depart as chief executive of the Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF) in March of next year. The decision ...

ASX200 advance climate targets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
More of Australia's top 200 companies are implementing strategies in response to climate change, new research shows. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) annual benchmark analysis shows ASX200 companies' climate-related disclosure ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
It won't be long now till we again hear "balcony concertos" - the ones started in Italy back in March this year (and gone viral on cyberspace) when the government imposed a hard lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic - for infections in Europe ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
The numbers may be better than market expectations but they still don't diminish the fact that Australia's labour market remains weak. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's unemployment rate increased to 6.9% in ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Despite COVID-19 volatility, financial advisers have managed to deliver value of 5.2% or more each year to clients, according to new research. It's the key finding of Russell Investments' Value of an Adviser Report for 2020, saying this is the case ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
A small cap fund backed by two fresh-faced investors with no prior funds management experience has managed to outperform the benchmark consistently since its inception in July 2018. As of August 31, Spatium Capital's Small Companies Fund returned ...

Chief economist update: Money buys happiness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Happy consumer makes the economy grow stronger. The result of the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey disproves the aged-old adage that "money doesn't buy happiness". Australian consumer sentiment surged by 11.9% to a reading ...

MLC Wealth general manager jumps to Ashurst

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The former general manager of regulatory change and remediation at MLC Wealth has moved to law firm Ashurst. Chris Baker spent more than 12 years with National Australia Bank and MLC in various leadership roles and was general manager, regulatory change ...

ClearView pushes ahead with SFT

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
The ASX-listed wealth and insurance company will complete the successor fund transfer of its risk-only superannuation products to HUB24, which is scheduled to take effect on October 31. ClearView will move its clients from its LifeSolutions Super and ...

Adviser sentenced to eight years' prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
A financial adviser has been jailed over using clients' money to fund his lifestyle to the tune of $1.1 million, including $72,000 he spent on a boat, while licensed by AMP, NAB and Synchron. Anthony Dick has been sentenced to eight years in prison ...