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Standard Life Aberdeen chair steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... re-election at the company's annual general meeting in May next year and agreed with the board he will retire at the end of September 2020. Commenting on the move, which comes after almost four decades with the company, Aberdeen Asset Management chair ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
... Management (ISM) manufacturing index dropped deeper into contraction territory from 49.1 in August to a reading of 47.8 in September - the lowest since June 2009 (GFC days) and lower than market expectations for an increase to 50.4. Then it got worse. ...

CommInsure charged over hawking

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
... business for $150 million less than originally agreed, at a new value of $2.375 billion. When initially announced in September 2017, the sale was expected to be completed by the end of the 2018 calendar year.

Chief economist update: US recession on the cards

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... Management (ISM) manufacturing index dropped deeper into contraction territory from 49.1 in August to a reading of 47.8 in September - the lowest since June 2009 (GFC days) and lower than market expectations for an increase to 50.4. Nine out of 10 of ...

IOOF expands advice team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... appointed Renato Mota as its new chief executive in June of this year. IOOF won a court action brought on by APRA in September this year with the Federal Court clearing the wealth company, and its former chief executive, of any wrongdoing in relation ...

Blackstone makes $8.7 billion purchase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... after Blackstone agreed to buy Canadian real estate investment trust Dream Global for US$4.7 billion (AU$6.9 billion) in September and the purchase of U.S industrial warehouse properties from Singapore-based logistics provider for US$18.7 billion (AU$27.6 ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... there'll be no major announcements, especially after the big one (so far) had only been announced a month before (in September) where the ECB decided to adopt substantial monetary policy stimulus measures. It stated: "The package consists of five ...

UK insurer fined for annuity sales failings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... treat customers fairly. The fine relates to direct sales of non-advised annuities that occurred between July 2008 and September 2017 to existing Prudential pension holders. FCA's executive director of enforcement and market oversight Mark Steward said ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... ones - the PBOC has cut the reserve requirement ratio several times from 17% in March 2018 to a 12-year low of 13% in September this year and cut the one-year loan prime rate down to 4.2% after lowering it to 4.25% in August and keeping it unchanged ...

AMP, HESTA, Hostplus lose out in ratings

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... record. But HESTA has just been named in the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing Leadership Group and in September was named by the Department of Environment and Energy as Carbon Neutral for emissions produced from its business operations. ...