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US senators in alleged COVID-19 insider trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... close to $3.5 million throughout late January and early February, several of which were in companies that own hotels, The Guardian reports. Also defending the actions, Burr said he relied solely on public news reports to guide his decision on February ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 could hit Australia with triple whammy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... a factory in Stuttgart, with the final product emerging in Michigan." The fall-out is underscored by a report by The Guardian : "JCB, the British digger maker, has cut working hours and suspended overtime for 4,000 UK employees after the coronavirus ...

Future Fund chief to lead IFM Investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
David Neal is set to jump from leading the $168 billion Future Fund to heading IFM Investors after Brett Himbury's resignation last year. Neal has been at Future Fund since its inception, starting as the chief investment officer in 2007 and then ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... 0.8%, the Shanghai composite gave up 1.5% and the Hang Seng index plunged by 2.0% -- in contagion fears. According to The Guardian: "China confirmed 291 cases of infected patients in an update on Tuesday. There have also been reports of cases in Thailand ...

Future Fund returns 1.9% for the quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
Australia's sovereign wealth fund returned 1.9% in the three months to September, taking its ten-year return from 10.4% per annum at end of last quarter to 10%. The fund's assets under management grew by $3.1 billion in the quarter. Asset allocation ...

Retirement income under review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... review. Former International Monetary Fund executive director Michael Callaghan will chair the review, with Future Fund guardian Carolyn Kay also on the panel. In its terms of reference the government said it was important that the system allowed Australians ...

Suncorp pays $1.4m remediation bill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
Suncorp Life and Superannuation has remediated more than 4000 Guardian Advice clients for poor financial advice. ASIC today confirmed Suncorp has completed the remediation program for more than 4000 GuardianFP clients, paying out a total of $1.431 million. ...

Super fund overhauls group insurance cover

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
A $72 billion superannuation fund is introducing a number of changes to its group insurance policies, as well as its products and investment options in line with the Protecting Your Super reforms. QSuper is making changes to income protection waiting ...

NZ Super dumps guns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
Hot on the heels of the passage of new gun laws in New Zealand, the NZ Super Fund has divested all companies involved in the manufacturing of automatic and semi-automatic weapons. The fund confirmed companies involved in the manufacture of civilian ...

New head of retail at Pinnacle

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... business. Prior to joining Morningstar Australia in 2014, he worked with The Trust Company (of Australia) and New Zealand's Guardian Trust for eight years and with ING businesses in Australia and Malaysia for the decade before that. Jajoo replaces Adrian ...