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Westpac prioritises risk management

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Westpac announced risk management and rebuilding its culture will be its top priorities for 2021. The bank paid $105 million to about 548,000 customers it has wronged during the first quarter ending December 2020, as announced in a trading update this ...

CBA guilty of deceptive conduct

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The Federal Court has found Commonwealth Bank of Australia made false or misleading statements and engaged in deceptive conduct on over 12,000 occasions. Justice Lee found that CBA breached financial services law 12,119 times when charging a rate of ...

Netwealth boosts profit, FUA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The platform provider posted a 34.5% increase in statutory profit and a $4.5 billion rise in funds under administration in its half-year results. Netwealth's statutory profit reached $27.6 million and funds under administration grew to $38.8 billion ...

Hostplus enhances ESG option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Hostplus is changing its sustainable investment option on the back of growing demand from members who want a more sustainable and principled approach to their investments. The Socially Responsible Investment Balanced option (SRI) now excludes a broader ...

Chief economist update: Red metal turning red hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
The latest GDP growth updates show that the world's major economies remain in contraction (in year-on-year terms) at the end of 2020 and despite the roll-out of vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic (and now its variants) remain with us, triggering stop-and-go ...

Industry fund awards $60m small caps mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
A boutique founded by former the small caps team at UBS Asset Management has won a $60 million mandate from a $5.4 billion industry fund. TWUSUPER has selected Eiger Capital for the equities allocation. "This mandate furthers TWUSUPER's plan to ...

Fiducian profit, growth jump

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
ASX-listed Fiducian Group recorded a 7% increase in net profit to $5.7 million and a steady rise in funds under management, advice and administration (FUMAA) in its half-year results. The group which includes funds management, financial advice and corporate ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut," Warren Buffett once famously advised. The barber's nod will invariably be met with opposition from shampoo manufacturers. Such is the divide between the Morrison government (the barber) and labour unions ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
It's beginning to look a lot like the Eurozone economy wouldn't be able to dodge a double-dip recession given tighter and/or extended coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns remain in place in many of its member countries. Eurozone GDP fell into ...

AMP Capital still being dressed up for sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
With the sale of AMP Capital still on the table, AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari has addressed the asset management business' cultural issues and hinted at who would take over its leadership. De Ferrari assumed direct leadership of AMP ...