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State government awards super fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... mandate, replacing AustralianSuper. Statewide will manage the default superannuation of new government employees. From 10 February 2019, new NTGPASS employees who do not nominate a super fund will become a member of Statewide. NTGPASS selects a new default ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... inflation target of 3% +/- 1%. This allowed the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to keep interest rates steady at 4.75% at its 7 February meeting - following five interest rate increases that took the overnight repo rate from 3.0% to 4.75% in 2018. This is ...

NAB chief executive and chair exit

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... chief executive Andrew Thorburn and chair Ken Henry announced they will exit the bank. Thorburn's last day is on 28 February 2019, while Henry will retire from the board once a permanent chief executive is appointed. Philip Chronican, a non-executive ...

NAB calls trading halt

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... wants the trading halt to remain until it makes the announcement. It would lift either at the commencement of trade on February 8, or when the announcement is released to the market. The bank was singled out in the final report of the Royal Commission ...

AFCA appoints new ombudsman

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... that will be dedicated to resolving disputes for small businesses including financial services firms. Joining AFCA from February 12 is Geoff Browne. He will become AFCA's first lead ombudsman - small business. Browne was the Victorian Small Business ...

Freedom Insurance suspends trading

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... Freedom Insurance Group has requested the ASX to suspend its shares indefinitely. Freedom first requested a trading halt on February 5 based on a "pending announcement providing a material update on the financial position of Freedom and its subsidiaries." ...

Chief economist update: RBA still in denial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... outlook on the domestic labour market. Job ads dropped by 3.7% in the year to January 2019 - the biggest contraction since February 2014) - nearly reversing the 4.2% gain recorded in the previous month. But wait there's more! In early June 2018 ...

Sequoia chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... is bidding farewell after nine years with the company. Beeton has also resigned as a director of the group effective February 4. In November 2018, Beeton flagged he would transition out of the chief executive role over the next six months. He joined ...

Bill Gross announces retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... global bonds and portfolio manager Nick Maroutsos will become responsible for the Global Unconstrained Bond funds from February 15. From that date, the Global Unconstrained Bond funds domiciled in the US and Ireland will be renamed Absolute Return Income ...

Former adviser steals $5m from clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... prompted the regulator's investigation. Gibbs is currently on bail and is due to appear in the committal court on 27 February 2019. According to the ASIC Financial Advisers Register, Gibbs first began providing advice in 1991. He ceased as an adviser ...