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Netwealth boosts profit, FUA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... addition, Netwealth noted its new pricing is fully implanted and an FUA administration fee is not expected to increase in the second half of the year. The platform recently announced that its longstanding chair Jane Tongs stepped down and appointed Tim ...

Statewide warns of cold calls to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... "If you're ever in doubt about the adviser, or their advice, we encourage you to contact your existing provider or get a second opinion before taking action," Palmer said. "Advice from these types of groups can have a fairly significant fee attached ...

Financial services sees improved mental health

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... mental health, according to SuperFriend. The financial and insurance services industries climbed from sixth place in 2019 to second overall in the thriving workplace score in 2020. The research highlights a large improvement in the mental health of financial ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... countries. Eurozone GDP fell into recession in the first half of 2020, contracting by 3.7% in the first quarter and 11.7% in the second (lucky 7, ey?), rebounded 12.4% in the third, before contracting by 0.7% (there's that "7" again) in the final ...

Magellan performance fees dip 70%

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... onboarding clients. Barrenjoey recently hired David Gonski as chair and will start to go live with the markets business from the second quarter. Magellan's results did not hold any big surprises, primarily as FUM and performance were already disclosed ...

Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... Nikkei-225 index will understand. The Japanese stockmarket's benchmark equity index rose by 16.0% last year - a very close second to the S&P500's 16.3% return - soaring by mind-blowing 64.1% from the lows plumbed in mid-March 2020. As at 9 February ...

APRA releases final ERS figures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... the 3.5 million Australians who applied to the scheme, 1.4 million did so twice, opting to remove further funds once the second tranche of the scheme opened in the new financial year. The average payment made was $7638. Repeat applications were for an ...

Aware expands affordable housing portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... their families. Aware Super's pledge to such projects nationally has ticked over $450 million. The project is the fund's second major essential-worker affordable housing venture. Some 100 essential-worker affordable housing units, which are part of the ...

Janus Henderson loses capital investment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
Janus Henderson has announced its major investor, Dai-ichi Life Holdings, is selling its stake to refocus capital on its global insurance presence, with the two signing a revised strategic agreement. The asset manager announced in its full-year results ...

Chief economist update: NIRP embedded in BOE forecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... vaccination programme leads to those easing, such that gross domestic product is projected to recover strongly from the second quarter of 2021, towards pre-Covid levels." The BOE forecasts GDP to contract by 4.2% in the March 2021 quarter before recovering ...