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Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... to 4.9% in the September quarter. The latest data shows the economy continues to improve. The annual growth in Chinese retail spending accelerated to 5% in November from 4.3% in the previous month, for its eighth straight month of improvement. Industrial ...

Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... without performance measures. Finally, the increased transparency and accountability measures can lead to potential inequity. Retail funds with backing from a parent company with a strong capital position could be promoted without using member funds. ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Future Super, the $1 billion ethical retail fund, has shared how its deidentified recruitment has helped boost diversity - after mixed results last year. Future Super head of group strategy Veronica Sherwood-Meares said on LinkedIn that Future Super ...

Fund manager charged with defrauding investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
A fund manager has been charged with misappropriating over US$7 million from retail investors who he had duped into believing he was an experienced and successful investment manager. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US charged Eric Malley ...

ASIC cancels stockbroker AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... resolution scheme. In addition, the limited conditions will ensure Halifax continues to have arrangements for compensating retail clients, including the holding of professional indemnity insurance cover and terminating existing arrangements with clients. ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... mitigate the fallout, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a fresh £4.6 billion (US$8.2 billion) in emergency funds to support retail shops, restaurants and tourism businesses from the re-enforced lockdown. The fiscal stimulus gives the Bank of England ...

Milliman practice lead resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... Australian market and particularly its investment business, which has continued to grow and expand across both institutional and retail segments." The firm continues to add talent to the investment services business, with principal and head of investment ...

WealthO2 names chair, director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... spent 14 years at Macquarie Bank where he was responsible for establishing Macquarie Wrap, the Professional Series, and retail life insurance businesses, as well as leading the Cash Management Trust. Prior to this, Roderick established HSBC Australia's ...

Tasplan says goodbye to lifecycle MySuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... superannuation savings by automatically de-risking members' investment portfolio progressively as they aged. They were embraced by retail superannuation funds. However, many industry funds stayed away from and largest ones like AustralianSuper, UniSuper ...

AMG Super rebrands divisions to cut costs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
The $1.4 billion Brisbane retail superannuation fund will drop individual branding of two funds it acquired in 2018, as it aims to reduce expenses over next three years. AMG Super, which is partly owned by DDH Graham, has so far run the $140 million ...