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Estate planning lawyer fined for misconduct

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
A solicitor who witnessed a client's estate planning documents before they had been signed by the testator or donor recently copped a $3000 fine and escaped being struck off the Roll. Martin Dubler is on the Supreme Court of New South Wales Roll ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Let me take you down (no, I'm not going to Strawberry Fields) back to early 2016, when the US and the European Union decided to lift financial and oil sanctions on Iran. Almost immediately Tehran announced it's bringing back production to 3 million ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... that would, at best, slow the BOJ's progress towards achieving 2% inflation." You can read the entire piece here. Maybe now Abe and Kuroda would be able to achieve their growth forecasts of 1.6% for the current fiscal year ending April 2019 (up from ...

Global fund manager promotes, restructures European unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
A global real estate investment manager announced several promotions and restructured its European business. TH Real Estate promoted Michael Neal to chief investment officer for Europe and Asia Pacific. London-based Neal joined the firm in 2008 and ...

Skyring names new head of distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
Skyring Asset Management has appointed a new head of distribution. Sam Benjamin joins Skyring from Smarter Money Investments, where he was an investment consultant. Prior to that, he was a regional sales manager in New South Wales and Western Australia ...

WAM LIC appoints director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
A Wilson Asset Management listed investment company appointed a director to replace John Abernethy. Emma Rugge-Price will fill John Abernethy's spot on the board of WAM Active as a director; a position he held for 11 years. Abernethy joined listed investment ...

Watermark LIC chair resigns to launch new business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The chair of the Watermark Global Leaders Fund (WGF) listed investment company is stepping down from his duties to avoid conflicts associated with the launch of a new asset management business. Rohan Hedley also cited increased commitments associated ...

Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... of 2017 and 5.8% at 2016's finish. Still, as Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic) - asked in her address to the ABE Conference in Sydney last 13 Feb, "how much and how quickly will they [wages] pick up?" In a nutshell, not so much and not so ...

Pension fund and bank terminate asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
A UK pension fund and its parent bank have terminated about $200 billion in respective mandates with a major global asset manager. Scottish Widows and Lloyds Banking Group's wealth businesses have given Standard Life Aberdeen notice to terminate their ...

Chief economist update: RBA sees wages growth recovering but it's not guaranteed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... This is one of the three questions Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic) - tried to answer in her address to the ABE Conference in Sydney yesterday. "How resilient will consumption growth be if income growth stays weak?" Ellis asked. "Our central ...