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Macquarie boards add new CEO and Westpac veteran

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
Macquarie has added a former Westpac deputy chief executive to its boards, just as it announces the formal board appointments of incoming chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake that was flagged at its July annual general meeting. Philip Coffey is now ...

Charter Hall acquires $1.6bn property fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Australian property giant Charter Hall plans to pay $205 million in cash to acquire a fellow ASX-listed property fund manager with $1.6 billion under management. Charter Hall, a group which manages $23 billion, has announced plans to acquire Folkestone ...

Discriminatory bank regulation hits super savings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
The interest rate paid by banks on short-term deposits in superannuation fund accounts is significantly lower than similar deposits made by SMSFs, and new research estimates as much as $1 billion is being lost in potential retirement savings. According ...

ASIC defends enforceable undertakings at Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
ASIC's favourite method of tackling misconduct came under fire as the Royal Commission capped off its round of superannuation hearings on Friday. First up was Tim Mullaly, a senior executive leader in ASIC's financial services enforcement division. ...

Chief economist update: Don't mind the gap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
Hear ye, hear ye... the unemployment gap has closed! The loss of 3900 workers (versus expectations for a 15,000 addition) may have made for sobering reading on the Australian labour market but this was a small give from the 58,200 additional workers ...

Frequent traders re-evaluate broking landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
Online brokers are being presented with a new business case to capture the most frequent traders - a group which has spiked in its considerations about switching broking platforms. Research firm Investment Trends said 9% of traders which transact more ...

New fund to invest in "clean disruption" tech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
An investment platform led by former Macquarie bankers has launched a new thematic fund that will invest in listed companies that produce and utilise clean disruption technology. AtlasTrends was founded in 2015. Since then, two of its three funds have ...

Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Commonwealth Bank is extending its domestic and family violence support program due to customer need, with its helpline receiving about 90,000 calls in the first month. Initially launched as a 12-month pilot in November 2017, the CBA Domestic and Family ...

Investment platform CFO steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
The chief financial officer of an ASX-listed investment platform has stepped down, with the role to now be outsourced. Share trading platform SelfWealth (SWF) announced it has engaged the services of The CFO Solution, a provider of outsourced administration ...

Existing but unregistered advisers at risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
Existing financial advisers that don't appear on ASIC's Financial Adviser Register will be forced to complete the new exam by 1 January 2019 if they don't register soon. In new guidance issued by the regulator, only those advisers listed on ASIC's FAR ...