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Digital engagement boosts investing demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Investors are increasingly relying on social media platforms and a new generation of brokers to meet online investing demand, a new survey shows. Investment Trends' latest Online Broking Report found investors are turning to blogs and online forums ...

Clayton Utz finally hands AMP notes to ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
ASIC has struck a major blow in its court battle with AMP over the wealth manager's fee-for-no-service issues. The corporate regulator was handed internal file notes from law firm Clayton Utz last week, which relate to the firm's interviews ...

Paradice Investments sales lead takes new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
A multi-boutique has hired Paradice Investment Management's national sales manager as it ramps up ambitions. Copia Investment Partners appointed Jude Fernandez as a distribution manager. Prior to Paradice, he worked at Schroders for nine years as ...

Macquarie chief executive on striking a balance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
At a recent Women in Super lunch, Shemara Wikramanayake spoke about how she managed competing commitments between raising a family and working her way up the corporate ladder at Macquarie Group. Wikramanayake has two children, now teenagers. Her husband ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
"The fact that the climate has become more uncertain doesn't mean one has to stay put - you do what you think is right... In a dark room you move with tiny steps. You don't run, but you do move, said European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario ...

Janus Henderson operations head departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
Janus Henderson Investors is hunting for a new head of operations after the incumbent moved to a similar role at PIMCO. Scott Delaney left Janus Henderson about three months ago, the company confirmed. According to LinkedIn, Delaney is now senior vice ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
Australia's 27-year-old track record of avoiding recession is coming to an end as yesterday's ABS numbers show the economy is already in effective recession, according to the University of New South Wales. Yesterday, the Australian Bureau of ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
The Australian economy has slowed - big time. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed that GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter from 0.3% in the previous three-month period, taking the annual growth ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did nothing to monetary policy after the conclusion of its second board meeting this year. It kept the official cash rate at a record low, predicated on the same rationale it put forth at its February ...

WTW Australia asset consulting lead joins super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
The former head of asset consulting at Willis Towers Watson Australia is now on the executive team of a $27 billion government superannuation fund. Paul Taylor has been appointed general manager of investments at GESB Superannuation, adding more than ...