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MLC Asset Management appoints fixed income head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... wealth business's leadership last year. It also rebranded its asset management business to MLC Asset Management in October last year.

Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... temporary trading halt after stocks plunged 7% at the open. It was the first time a temporary halt has been implemented since October 1997. Trading stopped for 15 minutes, and afterwards, continued on a decline that would see the S&P 500 shed more than ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... typhoon that hit the country and in reaction to the government's lifting of the consumption tax rate from 8% to 10% in October. Business investment dropped by 3.7% and while net exports contributed 0.5 percentage points to fourth quarter GDP, this ...

Stanford Brown hires Deloitte director, acquires firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... Soteria Capital and corporate wellness consultant BeneFit3. Hoyle flagged the firm's intention to expand into accounting in October last year, as first reported by Financial Standard. The rationale was that having financial planning and accounting under ...

Raiz cuts AET amid Sargon saga

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... around $2 million and intercompany loans of about $75 million. IOOF sold its AET corporate trust business to Sargon in October 2018 $51.6 million. At the time, AET said it was excited to join the now embroiled firm. "The AET Corporate Trust team is excited ...

ASIC turns up the heat on enforcement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... staff spending 216 days and conducting 739 meetings with banking staff at all levels of the major banks and AMP between October 2018 and December 2019. ASIC emphasised that some, but not all of its recent work had been focused on responding to referrals ...

First State hires from CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... responsible for leading CBA's global compliance function. She replaces Suzette Thurman who stepped down from the role last October. Prior to that Couchman was the global chief operating officer, compliance and head of enterprise compliance at Macquarie ...

More US giants added to Chi-X TraCRs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... seeking ownership of US shares, with the firm noting an uptick in the daily trading of TraCRs since their introduction in October 2018. Chi-X said the strongest performer so far was Microsoft, with the firm increasing its valuation by more than 70% since ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... there's risk of weakening activity ahead. Then again, as present RBA head Philip Lowe stated after its third rate cut in October last year: "At low interest rates, many investments that didn't make sense at higher interest rates should now make ...

Ellerston LIC chair resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... (NTA) and the share price - which was the subject of shareholder and former Rothschild banker David Kingston's fury in October last year. EGI's board formed a subcommittee to consider the February 17 proposal. It excluded Jacob from the committee, given ...