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Chief economist update: RBA cash rate on ice until 2024

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Except to reinforce its message that interest rates will remain at record lows "until 2024 at the earliest", the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) June board meeting was largely a ho-hum affair. As expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings ...

Rest hires from QSuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
Rest has appointed a chief financial officer, hiring from QSuper. Kulwant Singh-Pangly will lead Rest's team responsible for financial management and strategy, and taxation. In his most recent role, Singh-Pangly spent nearly eight years at QSuper ...

PEXA to IPO in June

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
Link Group has announced that digital property settlement platform PEXA will list on the ASX towards the end of June after fielding offers from private equity firms. Link has signed an underwriting agreement for the initial public offering of PEXA ...

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
The country hasn't fully opened yet but easing restrictions, increased rate of vaccinations and stronger consumer and business spending combined to speed up the UK's recovery. This is underscored by the latest IHS Markit/CIPS PMI survey. Preliminary ...

Last day to vote in MAX Awards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
Voting for the 16 th annual Financial Standard MAX Awards will close at midnight tonight. So far the nominees have received 17,303 votes in total. The MAX Awards celebrate outstanding marketing, advertising and sales professionals in the financial services ...

Asendium launches swift SOA solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
The fintech has officially launched a solution that slashes the time to generate a statement of advice from eight hours to two hours. Asendium is aiming to reduce three major bottlenecks for advisers: processes, people and fragmented systems. Asendium ...

Potential small carve out for annual renewal law

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
ASIC will potentially provide leeway in the imminent annual renewal law, by not taking regulatory action against financial advisers who fail to provide a financial disclosure statement. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has identified practicality ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 0.25%, maintained the existing LSAP programme, and retained the existing Funding for Lending Programme (FLP) conditions at its 26 May Board meeting. Same old, same old. ...

Magellan retirement product nears launch

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
Magellan's retirement income product FuturePay will launch on June 1, the company said in this morning's ASX filings. Magellan Financial Group has been working on its retirement product since at least 2017. It has now scheduled a June 1 briefing ...

ASIC cancels AFSLs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
The corporate regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licences (AFSL) of two providers for failing to lodge audited financial accounts and failing to maintain an AFCA membership. Victorian-based financial services provider and mortgage ...