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Future Fund board members reappointed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... Advisory Board on technology and healthcare competitiveness. She has served as the chancellor of the University of Queensland, and has a bachelor of medicine, an honorary doctor of business from the University of Queensland and an MBA from the Harvard ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... 1917 and 2019, listed companies paid out about 65% of their earnings as dividends to investors, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia. However, this year is a different story across the world. The European Central Bank has asked banks to defer dividend ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... date, the Euro Stoxx-50 has dropped by 28.9%, giving up all its 2019 gains (24.8%), and then some. While the European Central Bank (ECB) has kept policy interest rates unchanged to date, it has announced several accommodative policy measures, including ...

Court confirms Storm Financial founders breached duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... to each of the 11 investors in question". Storm collapsed in 2009 after being forced into administration by Commonwealth Bank. The Townsville-based company was about $90 million in debt. In 2010, ASIC's initial case centered around specific investors ...

Why banks are lifting TD rates

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
In a somewhat surprising move, banks are lifting some of their term deposit rates despite the Reserve Bank of Australia slashing the cash rate to an all-time low of 0.25% last week. It comes after Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank ...

Investments head departs super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... long-time head of investment. Rundle has served the fund since 2008, following stints at MFS, Colonial First State, Commonwealth Bank and State Street. LGIAsuper has not confirmed whether it will hire a replacement for Rundle. His departure comes just ...

Industry's Best of the Best celebrated

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... long-term wealth by identifying and profiting from market anomalies, and noted its consistent outperformance of the Reserve Bank cash rate. Speaking to Financial Standard after the event, FS Power50 member and Evalesco financial adviser Marshall Brentnall ...

Financial planning pioneer to speak at FPA Congress

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... of this work he made his first visit to Australia more than 25 years ago to work on a program called Peer Power in Queensland which taught high schoolers important life skills such as how to manage conflict in relationships. The switch to finance came ...

Industry fund offers bonus on income streams

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... While some use it to pay down debt - the mortgage or credit cards - a significant proportion put cash into a term deposit or bank account - the "rainy day" contingency," he said. "With no exposure for growth, this is really a disastrous move for their ...

Suncorp wealth chief steps down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... and the progress we have made digitising the business making it easier for our customers," Carter said. Suncorp said the bank has implemented a number of customer driven initiatives, including Apple and Google Pay, which staged the rollout of the banks ...