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Challenger loses chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... including finance, investor relations, treasury, operations and information technology. Prior to joining Challenger, Tobin was general manager, finance for the premium business services division of the Commonwealth Bank and chief financial officer at ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
For the fourth year in a row, Australia has ranked in the top 10 countries in the world for retirement outcomes but the impact of the pandemic will be felt for some time, new research from Natixis Investment Managers shows. Australia nabbed the seventh ...

Low rates put retirees at risk: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Retirees will need to be 100% allocated to equities and greatly elevate their portfolio risk to meet most income needs in the current low yield environment, according to Vanguard. Vanguard's latest research paper titled An enduring solution for ...

Remembering Susan Ryan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
Tributes are flowing for the superannuation industry pioneer and former politician who passed away yesterday. The superannuation industry is in mourning for Susan Ryan, former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive and Australian ...

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... carefully monitor performance relative to other superannuation vehicles and are not more financial sophisticated than general super members. The submission also said the people most likely to benefit from relaxing SMSF maximum members would be financial ...

VGI Partners co-founder steps down from board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... role. David Jones who is chair of VG1 has been appointed to the board of VG8 and will stand for election at the annual general meeting in November. Following Tynan's departure as a director VG1, the board will now comprise a majority of independent non-executive ...

Japanese bank makes major voting blunder

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... operational blunder, after it failed to count 3.4 million postal votes for nearly 1000 companies ahead of their annual general meetings. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SuMi TRUST Bank) admitted to the major miscount after its client Toshiba Corporation ...

ASIC, IOSCO report on debt capital raisings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
The corporate watchdog has released a report into its findings on debt capital raisings following two years of surveillance of market practices. ASIC's 668 Report noted that while a properly functioning debt capital market (DCM) is vital for the real ...

VFMC adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... years' experience in financial services and investment management, and joins from Latitude Financial where she served as general manager, transformation, conduct and remediation for the past seven months. Prior to that, she worked at ANZ, leading the ...

J.P. Morgan set to cough up US$1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... scheme to manipulate the market for precious metals futures contracts and defraud market participants," Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said at the time. "These charges should leave no doubt that the department is committed to prosecuting ...