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Lifespan appoints investment expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
Lifespan Financial Planning has appointed an industry veteran to its investment committee who will also oversee the dealer group's managed accounts offering. Brian Long joins Lifespan as senior investment specialist for managed accounts. He also takes ...

Industry mixed on YFYS

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
Industry bodies have varied responses to the passing of the Your Future, Your Super reforms with some saying it will lead to worse outcomes for members. The Your Future, Your Super reforms were passed in the Senate yesterday with an amendment that will ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... decline in the jobless rate. Even better, this comes amid the rise in the participation rate from 65.9% in April to 66.2% in May - a whispering distance from the historic high of 66.3% recorded in March this year - itself, a positive indicator, as more ...

Your Future, Your Super passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
The Your Future, Your Super reforms were passed in the Senate today. One Nation and Jackie Lambie voted with the government in favour of the bill, while Labor and the Greens objected to it. However, an amendment was passed which will delay benchmarking ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
The Fed has spoken and Wall Street didn't like what it heard and saw (in the dot plots). US equities painted the board red, with all benchmark indices closing on the down low, while yields on 10-year US Treasuries went on the up and up. This is ...

Maine forces pension funds to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
The state of Maine has become the first in the United States to pass legislation forcing its pension fund to divest fossil fuels. Last week, Maine passed bill LD99; an act to require the state to divest itself of assets invested in the fossil fuel industry. ...

Perennial to launch fund, hires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
Perennial will launch its third private company investment fund for wholesale investors on July 14 and has hired an investment head from Investec. The Perennial Private to Public Opportunities Fund No. 3 has a minimum raising target of $50 million ...

ASIC drops Regal action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has dropped enforcement action against Regal Funds Management following an investigation in 2019. Regal has received a formal no-action letter from the corporate regulator confirming that no ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... CoreLogic's home value index shows that the Five city capital aggregate index increased by another 2.3% in the month of May (from April's 1.8%) to be 9.1% higher from a year earlier. Not only that, CoreLogic's research director, Tim Lawless ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
"We have to take the economy through the pandemic and into a recovery phase, which has now started. We need to really anchor the recovery. We always talk about inflation anchoring and we are not oblivious to that. But the recovery needs to be firm ...