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Tasmania leads economic recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Tasmania continues to be the best-performing economy thanks to a booming housing market, a new report shows. For the eighth quarter in a row, the Apple Isle has outgunned the other states and territories based on its relative unemployment, retail spending ...

Use of cryptos to boom in 2022: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
One billion people will own some form of cryptocurrency by the end of 2022, new research suggests. Analysis from Crypto.com shows the number of crypto owners across the global nearly tripled last year from January's 106 million to 295 million in December. ...

Advice industry loses 800 over New Year period

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
... Financial Advisers (327), Interprac Financial Planning (263), Capstone Financial Planning (260), Alliance Wealth (260), Count Financial (251) make up the top 10 practices based on adviser numbers. While many continue to leave the profession, one interesting ...

Dramatic growth in non-aligned advisers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... Business Services (422) comes second place, along with Capstone Financial Planning (267), Lifespan Financial Planning (251), Count Financial (249), Ord Minnett (239) and Alliance Wealth (215). As a result, bank and insurer-aligned advisers now only represent ...

American Century introduces small-cap fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
American Century has launched a global small-cap fund targeting Australian wholesale investors. The American Century Global Small Cap Fund is actively managed, investing in companies operating in developed and emerging countries. It tracks the MSCI ...

Life insurers to embrace risky assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
Life insurers will take on more risks and shun safe-haven assets in a bid to bump up returns in 2022. Australian life insurers are tipped to shed their conservative nature this year amid a tough macroeconomic environment, according to bfinance. Many ...

Barclays appoints managing directors

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Barclays has appointed two new managing directors of investment banking in Australia. Duncan Beattie and Duncan Connellan have been named in the roles. Beattie will lead the overall delivery of international capital markets financing for clients in ...

Citi adds to APAC leadership

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Stella Choe has been named as the new head of Citi's Global Subsidiaries Group (GSG) for Asia Pacific. Choe will replace Munir Nanji, who has taken a new role as head of the Central Europe Cluster and Citi country officer for Czech Republic. Choe will ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Another two covid years over, a new one's just begun. Although still not proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, since the first bat flapped its covid wings in Wuhan (China), it has gone through several mutations - most notably, Alpha, Delta and now Omicron ...

PineBridge hires Asia wealth management lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
PineBridge Investments appointed a head of wealth management for the Asia region in a newly created role. The global asset manager has hired Nicolas Kopitsis, who finished up at BNY Mellon Investment Management in April 2021. At BNY, Kopitsis was the ...