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Vale Ian Perkins

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
Australian financial services veteran Ian Perkins is being remembered for his warmth, passion and joy for life, after passing away suddenly on June 29. Perkins spent the last six years working with BNP Paribas Securities Services, where he was responsible ...

Pension fund in divestment hoax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
Global climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion has come under fire after it posed as Sweden's largest pension fund and claimed it was divesting from all companies with operations in fossil fuels. On June 29 a website purporting to be that ...

Alan Dixon steps down at Evans Dixon

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
After stepping down from the firm's executive roles last year, Alan Dixon this week also gave up board and associated investment committee positions for personal reasons. Dixon, who was the chief executive of the ASX-listed firm until June last year ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." -- 'A Tale of Two Cities' ...

AFCA sees 14% rise in complaints

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has reported a 13.7% rise in monthly complaints in the last financial year with most being about superannuation, insurance claims and credit. Australians in dispute with their super fund, bank, insurer or ...

Equipsuper, corporate fund merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
As it gears up for its own merger, Equipsuper has completed another successor fund transfer, transitioning the corporate super plan of a national wealth management group. Equipsuper is now home to the 950 members of the Pitcher Retirement Plan, with ...

Chief economist update: The All Ords' ups, downs and ups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
It seemed so long ago and far away now but it was only a year ago that the All Ordinaries index broke above its all-time high recorded in 2007 before climbing to a new peak in February this year. The mood was good: The US and China have reached a trade ...

OneVue scores admin mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
Amid the Sargon kerfuffle and an acquisition bid, OneVue has managed to snag its single biggest client in its managed funds administration business. Australian Unity Wealth & Capital Markets (AUWCM) has signed a five-year outsourced managed fund administration ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
The gradual easing of restrictions has unfrozen social and business activity in almost every nation that decided to do so. Central banks and governments can flood the system with all the money they have, or can print, but with consumers not allowed ...

Super fund members compensated

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
Members of a retail superannuation offering have been remediated close to $3 million after financial advisers failed to comply with legislation that would have seen them transferred to a lower cost MySuper offering in 2017. More than 1266 smartMonday ...