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Managed accounts provider recruits portfolio manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... portfolio manager from Hyperion Asset Management. Elston Asset Management appointed Justin Woerner as a portfolio manager in April. He spent more than 14 years at Hyperion, starting out as an investment analyst before becoming a portfolio manager in ...

CFS taps senior Qantas Super executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... Loughrey most recently served as Qantas Super's head of legal, risk and compliance. He held the role from November 2011 to April 2019. Prior to Qantas, Loughrey worked legal and risk roles at BT Financial Group, including as the chief legal counsel. ...

Former Gold Coast adviser banned

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... March 2015 until 5 June 2018. Earlier, he was an authorised representative of Professional Investment Services, from 11 April 2006 until 14 May 2010.

Consolidation hits super fund administrators

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... FY2019." Part of the new law requires the ATO to sweep inactive superannuation accounts, firstly in October 2019 and then in April 2020. Link flagged that some funds are already moving to transfer inactive member accounts to an eligible rollover fund ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... forward guidance that rates will remain untouched "at least through the end of 2019" - changed from "summer 2019" at its April Governing Council meeting - further out sometime in the future. Eurozone GDP growth has slowed to 1.2% in the year to the March ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... major economies remain below their stated 2.0% targets. While US core US CPI inflation is at target (2.1% in the year to April), it's preferred inflation gauge - the headline PCE price index is way off-target (1.5% in March) and had been below 2% ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... of its dual mandate is not only half-full it's boiling over. America's unemployment rate was clocked at 3.6% in April - this is the lowest rate of joblessness in nearly five decades (December 1969) - stoking consumer confidence. The University ...

Retail clients win under new ASIC powers: Lawyers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... implications of the new design and distribution obligations (DOD) and product intervention powers (PIP) laws, due to take effect 5 April 2021 and 6 April 2019 respectively. Some of the new obligations require providers determining the target market for ...

Big four satisfaction on road to recovery

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... to trend upwards in the last two months. Satisfaction levels were up 0.6 percentage points to 75.9% between February and April, and NPS lifted from minus 1.6 to 0.4. Roy Morgan said the numbers were still below the big four's pre-Royal Commission markers ...

Sunsuper, corporate super fund merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... corporate superannuation fund. CBH Super, the Perth-based corporate super fund of the CBH Group, was merged into Sunsuper on April 29. It marks Sunsuper's fourth merger in the last 12 months, following the transition of AustSafe Super, Kinetic Super ...