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APRA takes action against Westpac

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
The prudential regulator has launched action against Westpac over material breaches of liquidity standards. The breaches, which were identified during 2019 and 2020, relate to the incorrect treatment of specific funding and loan products for the purposes ...

Magellan adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
Magellan Financial Group has welcomed a non-executive director with extensive experience in the retail industry to its board. Colette Garnsey has over 40 years' experience in retail, marketing and distribution and is currently the chair of Australian ...

CFM fund to wind up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The French quant manager is shutting an Australian fund, after returns slipped into negative territory and fund size stagnates. The CFM Institutional Systematic Diversified used a multi-strategy quantitative approach to target positive returns over ...

AIA under fire for coal holdings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The life insurer is at the centre of a campaign against its investment in coal companies despite positioning itself as an organisation with a focus on sustainability. The campaign, called AIA Kick Out Coal! launched by Insure Our Future and SumOfUs ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
It keeps getting better and better for Australia. Only yesterday, I penned about things bright and beautiful developing in Australia - its success over containing the second wave and the consequent relaxation of restrictions and re-opening of state ...

End of the road for advice qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
Described as the 'end of an era', the Diploma of Financial Planning and Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning have been removed from the national regulator's register of vocational education and training. On November 3, the Australian Skills ...

AustralianSuper hires for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
The $188 billion superannuation fund has appointed a new deputy head of equities, and three investment directors for its London team. Former VFMC chief investment officer Justin Pascoe, who joined AustralianSuper mid-2019 as a senior portfolio manager ...

Franking credits more important than ever

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
Many retirees are missing out on additional income because their Australian equity portfolios do not take advantage of the taxation system, according to Plato Investment Management. Plato portfolio manager Peter Gardner said, with interest rates at ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
"I see trees of green, red roses too..." - Louis Armstrong It'll be peculiar to even be humming this immortal classic at a time when covid-19 continues to afflict most of the world. But the way it's going for this land down under, it wouldn't ...

ASIC investigates ASX

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
The corporate regulator is investigating the ASX following an outage last week which saw investors unable to trade for 24 hours. "ASIC has confirmed to ASX that it is conducting an investigation into the ASX Trade outage on Monday, 16 November 2020," ...