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Ord Minnett adds to team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... Luke Macnab and Supun Wijerathna. Their coverage areas will include insurance, automotive, building and construction, consumer, telecommunications, IT services and technology. "The new appointments strengthen Ords' institutional research teams' dominance ...

AFCA forced into rule change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... liability for licensees regarding their authorised representatives as set out in the Corporations Act and the National Consumer Credit Protection Act. The new rules will come into effect from 13 January 2021, but complaints received before that date ...

Chief economist update: Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... These wonderful set of numbers could start a virtuous cycle in the domestic economy whereby rising employment boosts consumer optimism, stimulating spending, lifting company sales and profits, encouraging business spending in plant and machinery and ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... tonne it reached almost a decade before. The rise in iron ore is largely due to China's - the world's biggest consumer - strengthening economy. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.5% in the year to the December 2020 quarter - better than consensus expectations ...

Hume advocates for affordable advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... finances and to make better use of their savings in retirement." ASIC's recent consultation, taking industry and consumer feedback on how to improve consumer access to quality, affordable financial advice, closed on January 18. One issue ASIC is ...

Key finance figures in Biden Cabinet

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... been nominated for deputy secretary of the Treasury, reporting to Yellen. Adeyemo was the first chief of staff for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and serves as president of the Obama Foundation. He was the senior international economic adviser ...

Fidelity enters UK advice market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
Fidelity International has launched a new restricted advice service, Fidelity Wealth Management, in the UK with five advisers and another six on the way. Fidelity said the UK wealth management arm will build on its existing wealth and retirement services ...

Citi unifies global wealth management business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
Citi has overhauled its wealth management business, bringing together its global consumer banking and institutional client operations. Citi Global Wealth will unify wealth management teams in global consumer banking and the institutional clients group ...

Cromwell makes Italian acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... investment, Robert Cotterell said the logistics sector has strong and enduring characteristics. "COVID-19 has impacted consumer behaviour and we believe it has pulled future e-commerce and online growth forward, giving impetus to the broader sector," ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... The early signs of stabilisation discussed above could persist, leading to favorable dynamics between still-resilient consumer spending and improved business spending. "Additional support could come from fading idiosyncratic drags in key emerging markets ...