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ASIC turns up the heat on enforcement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... staff spending 216 days and conducting 739 meetings with banking staff at all levels of the major banks and AMP between October 2018 and December 2019. ASIC emphasised that some, but not all of its recent work had been focused on responding to referrals ...

First State hires from CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... responsible for leading CBA's global compliance function. She replaces Suzette Thurman who stepped down from the role last October. Prior to that Couchman was the global chief operating officer, compliance and head of enterprise compliance at Macquarie ...

More US giants added to Chi-X TraCRs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... seeking ownership of US shares, with the firm noting an uptick in the daily trading of TraCRs since their introduction in October 2018. Chi-X said the strongest performer so far was Microsoft, with the firm increasing its valuation by more than 70% since ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... there's risk of weakening activity ahead. Then again, as present RBA head Philip Lowe stated after its third rate cut in October last year: "At low interest rates, many investments that didn't make sense at higher interest rates should now make ...

Count Financial treads new path

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... transition to the Count licence, bringing its total advisers to 326. Despite the overall drop in adviser numbers, from 1 October to 31 December 2019 Count Financial advisers produced and issued 1272 advice documents. In the same period of 2018, just ...

Ellerston LIC chair resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... (NTA) and the share price - which was the subject of shareholder and former Rothschild banker David Kingston's fury in October last year. EGI's board formed a subcommittee to consider the February 17 proposal. It excluded Jacob from the committee, given ...

Chief economist update: Working nine to five, barely getting by

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... Morrison government's tax cuts in July last year and the RBA's three 25 basis point rate cut each in June, July and October - indicating that both monetary and fiscal policies have still to get ahead of the curve. The problem for the RBA is that ...

SMSFs interrupted in 2019: SuperConcepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... becoming law. In terms of legislation that did pass in 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2019 was passed into law on 2 October 2019. This introduces the Super Guarantee opt-out which allows workers with multiple employers to opt-out by applying for ...

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... in the previous quarter. Japanese authorities can finger the blame on Typhoon Hagibis - which battered the country in October last year - and/or the lingering anxiety over the US-China trade tensions (and the accompanying yen appreciation) over the fourth ...

Partnership sees improved advice services

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... from expanded financial advice capabilities via a partnership with Link Advice. LGIAsuper partnered with Link Advice in October 2019 and has now expanded its telephone service for providing advice to members. LGIAsuper chief executive Kate Farrar said ...