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Financial services workers content with pandemic changes

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... Australians across multiple industries including financial services exploring how they rate their employer's response over the last six months and what shifts in workplace policies they expect in the future. Qualtrics head of employee experience for ...

Tax fraud goes from paradise to prison

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... key promoter of a tax evasion scheme who had been living in Vanuatu for several years to avoid arrest has been jailed for six years following a 19-year joint investigation by the ATO and Australian Federal Police. Philip Northam was sentenced in the ...

Take your CAPE ratio with a grain of salt

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... though the CAPE ratio may have surpassed 31 that doesn't mean the market's going to come crashing down in the next six months or even in the next year." Similarly, other industry leaders argue the ratio's new high should be taken with a grain ...

Young-old wealth gap widest in 18 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... Institute's publication Mind the Gap - The Australian Actuaries Intergenerational Equity Index (AAIEI) tracked 24 indicators across six domains relating to wealth and wellbeing from 2000-2018 across different age groups. The intergenerational wealth ...

Synchron compliance lead moves to AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... a spokesperson for AMP said. Earlier in his career, Jones was director, compliance at UBS Wealth Management Australia for six years and spent two years as a compliance manager at IFM Investors. Last week, Synchron said it chose not to fill the role vacated ...

Contango dumps investment strategy, opens raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... outperformance of growth stocks. Over one year the LIC had an NTA return of -20.75% and a total return of -16.51%. The last six months were no better with an NTA return of -20.60% and a total return of 18.50%. CIE revised its dividend policy to pay quarterly ...

Navigator takes stake in investment portfolio

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... entered into an agreement with Neuberger Berman subsidiary Dyal Capital Partners to acquire minority ownership interests in six of its funds. The ASX-listed parent of US-based Lighthouse Investment Partners will take minority ownership interests in Bardin ...

Synchron compliance lead resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... He leaves with our very best wishes." Jones had been at Synchron for more than four years, joining from UBS where he spent six years as director, compliance. Earlier in his career, Jones worked as a compliance manager at IFM Investors and senior compliance ...

Wasatch adds APAC distribution lead

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... research and governance, Amelia Kennedy, to a newly created role leading distribution in the Asia-Pacific region. During her six-year tenure at ANZ, Kennedy worked in a number of roles including senior manager - implementation assisting with the separation ...

ASFA sets out productivity plan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has released a six-step plan aiming to drive industry-wide productivity gains in superannuation. ASFA said it hopes to boost productivity gains as the impact of COVID-19 continues to disrupt ...