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CFS, UniSuper win customer satisfaction nods

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... Customer Satisfaction Awards, while UniSuper took home the Industry Super Fund of the Year award. CFS also took out the Major Retail Super Fund of the Year, while AustralianSuper won Major Industry Super Fund of the Year. CFS general manager Kelly Power ...

Macquarie sweeps Investment Leadership Awards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... consistently produced solid returns while effectively managing investment risk. The awards span 21 categories across six major asset class sectors, with analysis conducted by Rainmaker Information. In addition to pitting managers against their peers ...

State Street launches dedicated crypto, blockchain business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... Markets Tony Bisegna will step into the lead global markets role from September. Commenting, Chakar said: "State Street has a major role to play in the evolution of digital market infrastructure and this new division will help us bring our expertise ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... buyers reaching their borrowing capacity under the responsible lending regime and simply being priced out once again from the major capital cities. "Although we need to be mindful we're only days into the winter season, there is enough fuel for house ...

Mergers push member positivity

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
The recent merger activity in the superannuation sector is received positively by members but engagement is still underwhelming, new research shows. The latest Investment Trends Super Member Engagement Report showed nearly a third of members see merging ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... that wage negotiations have settled on the low side. As per Factset, "Kyodo cited Japan Business Federation figures showing major companies have agreed on an average pay hike of 1.82% in this year's annual spring wage negotiations, falling below ...

CFAs not immune to pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
About 15% of CFAs working as investment professionals had a pay cut related to COVID-19, according to a new survey that says pay remained relatively resilient during the pandemic. CFA Institute surveyed 4600 investment professionals from its member ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... and assured that it is monitoring lending standards. "Housing markets have strengthened further, with prices rising in all major markets. Housing credit growth has picked up, with strong demand from owner-occupiers, especially first-home buyers. There ...

KPMG names risk consulting partners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... at Grant Thornton in risk management. She was also a supervisor at APRA where she provided frontline supervision of two major Australian banking groups and spend over a decade in risk management roles in the UK at Deloitte, Royal Bank of Scotland and ...

CountPlus acquires tech solution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
CountPlus announced a 51% investment in a paraplanning and administration service. The listed dealer group has acquired the majority stake in Wealth Axis, which is a boutique provider of paraplanning, technology and administration support services to ...