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Aberdeen appoints head of Australian fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... previous head of Australian fixed income Nick Bishop left for Gresham Funds Management in April. McCabe and his team, in October, picked up Jasmine Argyrou's responsibilities when she left as a director on the Australian fixed income team. In June ...

Ethical super fund shutters themed options

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... closed four of its themed investment options to new and existing members following a review of its offering. Effective October, Good Super closed the women, animals, environment and pride options. All four options were incepted in 2018; pride and women ...

Stanford Brown acquires Sydney advice firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... Hoyle told Financial Standard. He declined to comment on size of the acquired client book and details of the sale. In October, Hoyle said the firm is looking to add accounting as it sees a greater demand from HNW clients to get their accounting and advice ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... 52.6 in November - the highest in eight months -- from 50.8 in the previous month, both new orders (51.3 from 49.6 in October) and buying activity (51.0 from 49.8) returning to expansion, and manufacturing sentiment improved to a seven-month high of ...

Tasplan chief to exit, merger confirmed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... The chief executive of $10 billion Tasplan Super is set to exit the fund, as Tasplan and MTAA Super commit to merge on October 2020. Current Tasplan chief executive Wayne Davy will stay on until the merger date. However, starting next October, MTAA Super ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... system is cheap or not. Dunnin's comments come after the OECD published it's Pension Markets in Focus report at the end of October, which used APRA figures to declare Australian super members are charged just 0.5% of total assets in fees or commissions ...

CommInsure cops $700k hawking fine

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... The penalty relates to sales of a product called Simple Life conducted by Aegon Insights on behalf of CommInsure between October and December 2014, when it ceased all outbound telemarketing of life insurance," a Commonwealth Bank spokesperson said. "We're ...

Chief economist update: Weaker yen strengthening Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... finger on monetary policy. Over the past many months, the BOJ has done nothing and it kept policy unchanged at it's October meeting only hours after the US Federal Reserve cut the Fed Funds Rate for a third time in October, following its July and ...

FASEA chief to provide update

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... financial planners have the opportunity to hear direct from FASEA since their Code of Ethics guidance was released in October." With only a matter of weeks until the FASEA Code of Ethics comes into action, Glenfield is expected to provide an update. ...

ASIC outlines Code of Ethics expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... of applications for ASIC approval of a compliance scheme. FASEA issued guidance about the interpretation of the code in October this year after its release in February. "FASEA is currently consulting about the guidance. The new single disciplinary body ...