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Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
A former BT Life Insurance head of product and sales has taken on the role, following the resignation of Andrew Tobin last year. Rachel Grimes spent over 20 years at Westpac in several senior finance roles including director of mergers and acquisitions ...

ATO begins stimulus fraud convictions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has started cracking down on those who fraudulently accessed government stimulus measures in relation to COVID-19 with the first conviction. Raed Saleh was convicted in the Heidelberg Magistrates Court of three counts ...

VanEck readies new ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... a new global equities ETF that tracks 30 listed companies in the clean energy sector. VanEck said it expects the ETF to start trading on the ASX in the coming weeks, subject to regulatory approval under the ticker CLNE, for The VanEck Vectors Global ...

Channel Capital expands overseas

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
The $16 billion Sydney multi-boutique has launched a Cayman Islands based offshore business, with a new on-the-ground head. Channel Capital Cayman will be headed by Mark Cook, a director for Cayman Islands and other offshore investment funds. The business ...

Aviva Investors appoints chief investment officer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
Global asset manager Aviva Investors has appointed a new chief investment officer to its $84.4 billion real assets business. Daniel McHugh has been appointed, reporting to former chief investment officer Mark Versey who has now stepped up to the role ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street can't have its cake and eat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... expectations......triggering concerns that the Fed could reverse its policy accommodation sooner-than-expected. After all, the Fed did start raising interest rates (after the GFC) in December 2016 (and continued to do so) even when inflation expectations ...

Seek launches investments arm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
Seek's founder and long-time chief executive Andrew Bassat is transitioning into a new role within the company as the chief executive of its new venture, Seek Investments. Seek said Seek Investments will focus on being an investor and business builder ...

Morphic co-founder joins hedge fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
A Sydney hedge fund has hired Chad Slater, who co-founded Morphic Asset Management. Slater has joined Drummond Knight, a hedge fund founded last year by Lindsay Taylor, who was a senior investor at Point72. Slater's new role is as a senior investment ...

Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
It's only been only two weeks since the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) provided a more optimistic assessment of and outlook for the domestic labour market. In its February 2021 'Statement on Monetary Policy' (SoMP), the RBA declared that ...

AFCA chair under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... to chair AFCA and hold the financial sector to account for consumer complaints. "Chairing Crown and AFCA is much like the start of Matchstick Men staring Nicolas Cage," Telford said. "Cage's business partner phones a person to say they won a new ...