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AIA appoints group insurance chief

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
AIA Australia has appointed a new chief group insurance officer. Stephanie Phillips will be responsible for group insurance product distribution. This follows AIA boosting its distribution team in September ahead of the transition to the new Life Insurance ...

SMAs on Macquarie Wrap pass $100m milestone

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Separately managed accounts (SMAs) on Macquarie Wrap have passed $100 million in funds under administration in its first year. The functionality was added to Macquarie Wrap in September 2014 to provide financial advisers with access to a range of SMAs. ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Macquarie announces new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Macquarie Group has filled its vacant chairman position. On 31 March 2016, Peter Warne will succeed outgoing chair Kevin McCann, who announced his retirement from the position on September 24. Warne is currently a non-executive director at the group ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... time is different. Equity markets are confused as to what they want the Fed to do. Wall Street fell on the day - 18 September -- the Fed announced that it is maintaining the status quo on monetary policy. Sure, the Street was disappointed, hence the ...

Hostplus brings insurance fees down

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
From tomorrow Hostplus members will see a 3% insurance premium decrease across death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) products. The premium decrease follows negotiations and a recent partnership renewal between Hostplus and global life insurance ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Virginia, the prospect of another shutdown of the US government looms - the country's lawmakers have only until 30 September (a full week) to pass a new budget for their fiscal year that starts on the 1st of next month. And it's real. As per Business ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... said as much when he testified before the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics 08 18 September - which incidentally marked his 9th anniversary as RBA head. "For Australia, we cannot, of course, determine our terms of trade ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
"Not happy, Jan!" This was Wall Street's immediate verdict on the Fed's disclosure of its non-decision following the much-awaited and much speculated 16-17 September FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 index declined by 1.6%; the Dow by 1.7%; Nasdaq by 1.4% ...