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UK regulator appoints Camille Blackburn to leadership team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
... global head of compliance at Westpac's institutional bank and as a principal advisor to Commonwealth Treasury during the Australian Financial System Inquiry. In more recent years she was chief compliance officer at Aviva Investors and was chair of the ...

ETF Securities launches fixed income options

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2022
... tracks the iBoxx $ Treasuries Total Return Index and is the first pure play exposure to US Treasuries available to Australian retail investors. It gains its exposure to the index by investing in DWS Group's Xtrackers II US Treasuries UCITS ETF. Meanwhile ...

Ken Henry resigns from ASX board

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2022
... issues. On behalf of all our stakeholders, I thank and congratulate Ken on his service; not only to ASX but to the Australian community more widely." Smith will stand for election at the AGM on September 28. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Australian ...

AMP wants life insurance caps raised, fees lowered

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
... current climate will lead to an underinsured population. The wealth manager picked at old wounds in its submission to the treasury review, arguing increased costs brought on by the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) and the federal government's Life Insurance ...

Queen's honours highlight industry veterans, ESG experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
... sector was, Byrne led STA for eight years before heading UniSuper for another eight. She was then chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors until 2013. Byrne was also a founding member of Women in Super and remains in the ...

AustralianSuper expands capital markets team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2022
... executive director at IFM Investors, managing currency, cash, fixed income, and derivative strategies on behalf of the global treasury investments team. Importantly, Kerr took a three-month contract at AustralianSuper in 2014 to develop a best practice ...

ACSI bolsters engagement capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors is growing, adding two senior staff members, including the former manager of ethical investments at AMP Capital's multi-asset group. Fiona Manning has joined ACSI as a senior analyst within the engagement ...

No more changes to risk commissions: ClearView

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... large institutions and their industry bodies," ClearView managing director Simon Swanson said. ClearView is calling on Treasury to avoid tinkering with commission rates to ensure accessibility and affordability. "Consumers should be able to choose how ...

S&P launches agribusiness Index

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2022
... sub-industries such as brewers, packaged foods and meat, paper products and the like. The AgBiz Index follows the S&P/ASX Australian Indices Methodology. While it doesn't have a set number of constituents, eligibility for the index includes minimum float-adjusted ...

Calls for Indigenous super beneficiary changes renewed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... steps to address them. In 2019, the AIST recommended Treasury modify the definition of a dependent to reflect First Australian kinship structures which differ from the concept of 'dependent' arrangements of other Australians. The AIST made this recommendation ...