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YFYS incentive to reduce fees: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... would disincentivise funds to cut fees in the future. "In effect, our observation is the funds that have been doing the right thing and cutting fees are being penalised for their historical arrangements and are disincentivised to cut fees further," Briggs ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... echoed by his merry FOMC men. "It will take some time before we see substantial further progress," he said. And if the Fed is right, the most recent dot plot shows that the fed funds rate would remain at 0 - 0.25% until at least the year 2023. This is ...

UK lender targets SMSFs in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
A UK marketplace lender is launching in Australia, targeting wholesale investors and self-managed super funds. CrowdProperty has launched in Australia under chief executive David Ingram. It matches investors with developers of small to medium-sized ...

AMP announces AMP Bank lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... "We have ambitious growth plans for the bank, and with his proven mix of strategic and operational expertise Sean is the right person for the job." O'Malley said he is looking forward to working with the team "to continue to deliver great outcomes ...

Government launches digital economy strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... the federal budget. The digital economy strategy includes $111.3 million to accelerate the rollout of the Consumer Data Right in banking, energy and telecommunications and $50 million to enhance cyber security in government, data centres and future telecommunications ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... retiree would only have $3750 of annual income. For a retired couple to live off term deposits comfortably in Australia right now, they would need $21 million in cash investments. According to Allianz Retire+, financial advisers need to rethink the defensive ...

Mainstream bidding heats up

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... made a superior offer to SS&C's original bid of $2 per share, coming in at $2.55 per share. SS&C has exercised its matching right and increased its bid to $2.56 per share for 100% of Mainstream shares. As such, Mainstream supports the further revised ...

Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
As expected, the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy board decided to keep current settings unchanged at its April meeting. Ever the optimist, the BOJ summarised its view in its "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices (April 2021)" report, saying ...

Milford hires from Macquarie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... Kristine Brooks said. "With further appointments in the pipeline, we believe we have the team to support the adviser community right across Australia." In November 2020, Milford appointed Marissa Rossi to head of sustainable investments and Jason Kururangi ...

ClearView appoints head of life strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... $0.6 million and $0.8 million each. It said it is currently on a multi-year transformation journey to ensure it has the right strategy, systems and processes to drive efficiencies and scale. "The cornerstone of the transformation program is the delivery ...