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ClearView adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
The diversified financial services business has made a raft of changes to its leadership team, including a fresh life insurance lead and new general manager of wealth management. ClearView has today announced a series of key management changes as part ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... accommodation will also reopen. The border between the city and the rest of our state will also fall away." Victoria's good news is good news for Australia as a whole. Victoria accounts for around a quarter of the national economy. The state's ...

Perpetual equities fund cops ratings downgrade

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... asset or book value but have often been beset with operational or management issues," Morningstar wrote in the review. "A good example of this is Crown Resorts, the second-largest holding as at September 2020." The ratings house noted success in such ...

Westpac hit with $1.2bn of losses

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Westpac will be hit with $1.2 billion worth of losses mostly driven by its life insurance business and AUSTRAC penalties. The bank flagged the massive loss ahead of releasing its full year 2020 results on November 2. Goodwill and intangibles associated ...

Morningstar creates chief ratings officer role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... benefitted from our analysts' judgment and, as investment options have proliferated and become more complex, the need for good judgment has grown exponentially. We are eager to harness new technologies and analytics to extend our analysts' reach ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... the economy fully recovers from the pandemic. Fed governor Brainard believes the US recovery remains uncertain and uneven. Good news or bad news - which would prompt more monetary and fiscal largesse - is good news for Wall Street.

Future Fund asked to table detailed fee spend

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... portfolio. It does not report how each asset class performed and the fees spent on them. This means it is hard to see how good the Future Fund is at picking external managers or beating the benchmarks in individual asset classes. Labour Senator Tim Ayers ...

Super needs improvement: Report card

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... decreased from 75.3 in 2019 to 74.2 this year, earning an overall B grade, meaning that while the pension system has many good features, it has areas for improvement that differentiates it from an A-grade system. (Mercer also attributed the drop in rankings ...

Sam Henderson sentenced

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... charges of dishonest conduct. Henderson was fined a total of $10,000 and released without any jail time on the condition of good behaviour for two years. The former celebrity financial adviser was fined $7000 on a charge of giving defective financial ...

Aussie asset managers fourth-fastest in global growth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
Australian asset managers are the fourth-fastest growing of their global peers, clocking in 11.9% in compounded annual growth over the last five years, says a new report from Willis Towers Watson. Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute published ...