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Chief economist update: US consumer power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
The US-China trade deal/no trade deal seesaw continues to drive the markets' daily ups and downs. But behind these day-to-day swings is the rise and rise on Wall Street - to new record highs. To be sure, the third quarter reporting season was nothing ...

Politician urges Treasurer to protect advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
Federal member for Warringah Zali Steggall has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to ask him to consider how regulatory changes are impacting financial advisers, requesting an extension to education reforms. Steggall wrote that a number of regulatory ...

Retail fund renews insurer, cuts premiums

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
A retail superannuation fund has reappointed OnePath as its insurer, and is trimming premiums by about 20%. Virgin Money Super has renewed OnePath Life for three years starting December 1. The mandate is for death, total and permanent disablement (TPD) ...

New role for former State Super investment chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
A $70 billion industry fund has hired State Super's former chief investment officer who left the fund in December last year. Sunsuper has appointed Richard Hedley as a portfolio manager for private markets. He started in the role earlier this month. ...

Lonsec bolsters research leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
The researcher made several appointments to the leadership of its research team to support the growing demand for investment research and managed account solutions. Former Evans Dixon Corporate and Institutional chief operating officer Lorraine Robinson ...

Vanguard appoints head of superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
Vanguard has announced three new appointments to its Australian executive team, including a lead for its new superannuation offering. Michael Lovett will return to Melbourne from Vanguard's US head office to lead Vanguard Australia's planned superannuation ...

CommInsure enters guilty plea

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
CommInsure has pleaded guilty to 87 hawking offences. ASIC announced that Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, trading as CommInsure, has entered a guilty plea for 87 counts of offering to sell insurance products in the course of unlawful, unsolicited ...

IOOF completes licence conditions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
IOOF provided an update to investors on the state of its licence conditions imposed by APRA in December 2018. The independent reviewer charged with assessing the status of compliance with the licence conditions identified 43 actionable items were required ...

Chief economist update: How low will Lowe go?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
RBA rate cut expectations strengthened after the release of worse-than-expected Australian labour market report. Duh! If financial markets were waiting for the jobs report to raise the odds of another Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate reduction ...

Chief economist update: The A$ will answer the question of how much more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2019
When the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met and decided to keep the official cash rate unchanged at 0.75% on November 5, Governor Philip Lowe issued this optimistic statement: "After a soft patch in the second half of last year, a gentle turning point ...