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Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... spending. Already, the Conference Board's consumer confidence index has dropped to a seven-month low reading of 88.6 in December 2020 - with the present situation index falling to its lowest reading in four months and the end of the year reading ...

360's plan for Evans Dixon

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... EP1 into two units and replacing its directors. 360 Capital yesterday filed a bidder's statement, following its revised December 11 takeover offer. E&P is yet to make a formal recommendation to its shareholders but reiterated that the offer is still ...

David Atkin joins ME Bank board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... officer and head of group services John Arthur. Atkin and Arthur join ME Bank's board, as John Nesbitt retired on December 31. "John is a highly experienced and respected leader and comes to us with a wealth of banking and management experience. ...

Arowana winds up LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... years ago, trading at $1 and peaking at about $1.31 in 2018. The share price plummeted from about $1.06 to 37 cents on 17 December 2020. It invests in local and international companies such as Corporate Travel Management, Nine Entertainment, Janus Henderson ...

MLC Life Insurance raises $650 million

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... by disagreements on terms of the transition. Nippon in its recent statement said it injected capital into MLC Life in December 2019 [$290 million ] and June 2020 to ensure the business's soundness and support execution of their business plan. "However ...

ASIC takes fintech to court

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... self-managed superannuation funds. Squirrel Superannuation Services, an SMSF platform provider, faced the Federal Court on 23 December 2020 for allegedly marketing misleading information between January 2015 and July 2018. In the brochure, How buying ...

Class action launched against OnePath

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JAN 2021
... subsidiaries OnePath Custodians and OnePath Life as part of its #GetYourSuperBack campaign. Filed in the Federal Court in December 2020, this makes the fifth class action launched by the law firm in response to the revelations arising from the Royal ...

SuperConcepts appoints interim chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... chief executive after incumbent Lara Bourguignon resigned earlier this month. Grant Christensen moved into the role on December 18. He joined SuperConcepts in 2006 and has worked in the SMSF industry for 15 years. He has experience across sales, marketing ...

Charter Hall buys David Jones flagship

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... pre-leased development projects across office and industrial sectors, we expect the group's FUM to exceed $45 billion as at 31 December 2020."

ASIC takes action against La Trobe Financial

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... were invested in cash and deposits and 83.8% of funds in that investment option were invested in first mortgages. In December 2019, the "capital stable" claims were made in advertisements in Money Magazine ( Financial Standard 's sister publication) ...