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Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... European and US peers, and some Asian countries. The Australian active fund management industry may have a more successful defence against the growing movement toward index strategies, the Tidal Forces report found, after analysing hundreds of millions ...

Chances of CBA admitting to Essential Super wrongdoing "non-existent"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... of the financial product recommended or the advice given." This followed ASIC's lawyer relaying CBA and CFS's defence that "there was no influence of the type spoken of in the definition of conflicted remuneration... sums of money were relatively ...

Women-led super funds outperform

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... hospitality and the public sector. Based on percentages, GuildSuper has the highest share of women members at 85%; Australian Defence Force Super has the highest share of young women members (91%); while Challenger has the highest share of retired women ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... administration) just call former US Secretary Lawrence Summers (under Clinton's) a coward? I refer of course to Madame Yellen's defence of President Biden's ginormous US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package against Summers' concern over the risk of ...

CSC announces new partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... advocacy, and projects to address the specific needs of our customers, and especially our current and former Australian Defence Force personnel," Hill said. "For CSC this is an important partnership that will help improve the wellbeing of our staff ...

Super funds back COVID-19 preventative drug

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... Respiratory managing director Christophe Demaison. INNA-051 works by stimulating the innate immune system, the first line of defence against the invasion of pathogens. By boosting the immune response at the primary site of infection, the ability of the ...

Statewide appoints new chief technology officer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... panel for electronic commerce during his time at Sunsuper. In 1996, he was a technology staff soldier in the Australian Defence Force. "David has a great technical mind and we are excited to use his experience to improve our members' online interactions ...

Sam Henderson sentenced

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... Henderson allegedly called her "aggressive" and "nit-picking". Commissioner Kenneth Hayne did not accept Henderson's defence that the advice he provided to that client was a "draft".

AMP, former employee settle

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... parties were last in court as recently as September 25, when Cook's lawyers were seeking to strike parts of AMP's defence which claimed Cook was being performance managed. AMP and Cook have now settled by consent. AMP has paid an undisclosed ...

Frydenberg focusses on jobs, jobs, jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... driven primarily by increased expenditure related to COVID-19. The child care subsidy accounted for $8.9 billion, less than defence force superannuation benefits ($9.8 billion) and support for non-government schools ($12.8 billion).