Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1401 - 1410 of 4024 results for "January"

Ironbark, Zurich shutter funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... Drennan said. The board has suspended withdrawals from the Zurich Investments equity income scheme which had $158 million at January end. It expects the wind up to be complete by 30 July, which will include returning a "material level" of franking credits ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
Super Mario's back to doing whatever it takes. When European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi spoke at 'The ECB and Its Watchers XX' conference in Frankfurt on March 27, he concluded his speech emphasising that, "... the ECB will ...

Kelaher to leave IOOF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... dedication to serving our clients and supporting their advisers." Australian Ethical divested its $8.8 million stake in IOOF in January this year. Its head of ethics research Stuart Palmer said the decision was driven by IOOF's failure to put governance ...

UBS small caps team launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... specialised in micro-caps, crossed over to Yarra Capital. "We had conversations with Fidante Partners all through December and January, when everyone was on holidays, discussing how this would work and then starting January end, we worked flat out for ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... in the previous month and marks the first expansion in the sector that followed indications of contraction in December, January and February. For those who remain suspicious of Chinese stats, the Caixin China General Manufacturing PMI offers the same ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... from 4.3% in the previous month - the fifth straight month of weakening growth and the slowest annual growth rate since January 2014. The details of the report show that among its components, only business credit advanced - up by 5.3% in the year to ...

APRA warns trustees on expectations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... reminded trustees that its new prudential standard PS 515 Strategic Planning and Member Outcomes becomes effective from January 2020; "Trustees should now be drawing up plans to ensure that they will meet these requirements and be prepared to share these ...

Frydenberg takes action on banning grandfathered commissions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... to pass on to clients any benefits from previously grandfathered conflicted remuneration remaining in contracts after 1 January 2021. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg defined conflicted remuneration as the payment of a benefit to a financial adviser ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... a US recession. Perhaps, glowing in its success and the booming dotcoms, the Fed ignored the inversion that started in January 2000 and continued to lift the fed funds rate until May of the same year before holding them unchanged until December 2000. ...

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... of products dictated by their Australian Financial Services Licensee (AFSL)." Under the LIF, which was introduced on 1 January 2018, the first year's premium is capped at 80% with a 20% trailing commission thereafter. From 1 January 2019, the first ...