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The week that was

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
This week the world gained some clarity as to the true scale of the impact COVID-19 is likely to have which, in turn, made clearer the challenges the financial services industry will face in combating the pandemic's effects. However, greater uncertainty ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... other week in history, as can be seen by comparing the projection against the trend in initial claims back to 1967". "For scale, consider that 3.4 million Americans moving from employment to unemployment would raise the number of the unemployed from ...

Industry fund boss exits

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... dislocation and job losses." Separately, the fund recently decided to wind-up its infrastructure option, citing a lack of scale. At December end, the unlisted infrastructure option had $3 million in funds under management, according to Rainmaker data. ...

AMP director retires

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... executive Michele Levine said distrust can directly impact market share, profit and share prices. "Our work uncovered the scale of distrust - this previously invisible force. It's not uncertainty or even an absence of trust. It is something separate ...

Hamish Douglass remains confident amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... investment opportunities in the future. "We have to understand the power of these technology platforms... how do we invest at scale where the cloud computing opportunities and software opportunities are going to be?" He said. "We have to smartly think ...

Perpetual exits MySuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... determined that this transfer is in the best interest of Perpetual MySuper members as CareSuper is likely to provide benefits of scale and deliver better outcomes for members over the long term," Perpetual said. In terms of member dynamics, analysis ...

FPA advocates for reduced pension minimums

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... International. The association made several recommendations on the cost of financial advice, starting with establishing the scale of the challenge facing Australians in affording personal financial advice, "particularly due to escalating regulatory costs". ...

CFA postpones exams

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... serve the hundreds of thousands of candidates who registered for the June exam. "This postponement is of an unprecedented scale and we are working to ensure that we have the capacity to manage the volume of registrations we need to process." The CFA ...

UBS says goodbye to ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... investors that the funds were unlikely to become viable as ASX-quoted exchange funds. "This is primarily due to insufficient scale, leading to costs that are disproportionately high as a percentage of the net asset value of each fund. On this basis ...

Prodigy folds, two boutiques to shut

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... Capital. Last Friday, Euroz decided to stop funding Prodigy, taking the view that Prodigy had failed to reach sufficient scale, and industry headwinds and barriers to entry are strong. At the time of the decision, Prodigy's boutiques had about $80 ...