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AMP chair faces shareholder ire

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... price performance and unjustifiable remuneration packages at the annual general meeting this morning, held online for the second year in a row. A burning question was how news of chief executive Francesco De Ferrari's exit was leaked to the AFR on ...

BNY Mellon partners with FRT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... complexity grows," she said. The solution will be rolled out across the globe including in Australia, which happens to be the second-most active jurisdiction in the world for securities class actions. FRT is represented locally by Sean Cookson, who serves ...

FirstChoice dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... nationwide. In New South Wales and the nation's capital, Perpetual WealthFocus (6.3%) and Macquarie Wrap (6.2%) are second and third most popular platforms, respectively. In Victoria, AMP Flexible Lifetime and Asgard are frequently used after FirstChoice ...

ASIC appoints new chair, deputy chair

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... remain co-deputy chair, working alongside Court. Court has been an ACCC commissioner since May 2008, reappointed for her second term in 2018. ACCC chair Rod Sims commented on Court's appointment at ASIC, saying: "ASIC's gain is very much our ...

CountPlus member firm to make acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
The ASX-listed advice and accounting group has announced its member firm Kidmans Partners Wealth is acquiring the financial advice services of another member firm. Kidmans will pay $290,000 to Colgin Financial Services with $150,000 paid on completion ...

Hostplus, HNWs back CSIRO fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... Hostplus and Temasek to solve the world's problems in health, food, space and industrial productivity. Main Sequence's second fund aims to solve six challenges which include feeding 10 billion people, decarbonising the planet, reaching humanity scale ...

Chief economist: Of capital gains taxes, COVID-19 and climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... serious concern - it broke a one-day new cases record of 315,000 Wednesday and shows no sign of abating. Korea also hitting a second-wave high, Singapore called off its proposed travel bubble with Hong Kong as it found its biggest cluster since September. ...

Chief economist update: Bank of Canada walks the talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... quarter appears considerably stronger than the Bank's January forecast, as households and companies adapted to the second wave and associated restrictions. Substantial job gains in February and March boosted employment. However, new lockdowns will ...

ERS spending revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... total amount withdrawn was $17,441. The average single withdrawal was $7728 for the first opportunity, and $7536 for the second," ABS director of household economic resource surveys Dean Adams said. The ABS found that private household income, including ...

Best MySuper options by risk-adjusted returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... the risk-adjusted basis differed slightly from winners on headline return basis. For example, Australian Ethical was the second-best on headline returns with 8.5% p.a. but took the top spot in risk-adjusted returns. It had an Omega ratio of 1.7, Sortino ...