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BlackRock appoints regional head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... manager's Asia Pacific business has a new head as its incumbent moves to a global role. BlackRock's current head of corporate strategy and senior managing director Geraldine Buckingham is taking on the APAC head and chair role. She replaces current ...

Productivity Commission pushes for superannuation scale benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... in administration and investment fees. On average, administration expenses are typically lower in larger funds, while corporate funds are realising economies most rapidly, it said. The average fund, for example, grew from about $900 million to $8 billion ...

Royal Commission on social media: Executives grilled

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... given Australia's recent low wage growth. If it works to prevent #doping scandals among sports stars, could confiscating corporate executives' #superannuation serve to hem in their more opportunistic and self-serving behaviours, asks Dr @llenten ...

Royal Commission: ASIC rethinks negotiation tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
ASIC chair James Shipton has admitted the corporate regulator was too reliant on negotiating resolutions with financial services firms and flagged litigation could take precedence, the Royal Commission heard. Shipton told counsel assisting Rowena Orr ...

Industry funds lead website experience

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... opening Transition to Retirement (TTR) accounts (0.7 higher) and locating Age Pension information (0.6 points higher). Corporate governance documents were tough to locate on both industry fund and retail fund websites but industry funds scored 0.3 points ...

Industry fund appoints risk executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... his health. Prior to joining Intrust, Swenson was a compliance specialist at Energy Super and previously worked as a corporate lawyer at Credit Union Australia. Swenson will also serve as Intrust's company secretary, like Engelhardt before her. She brings ...

Australia's first active fixed income ETF goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... Bond Fund which has about $600 million in funds under management and is now in its 20th year. The strategy invests in corporate investment grade bonds, semi-government and government bonds, supranational bonds and mortgage and asset backed securities ...

La Trobe Financial prices $750m RMBS issue

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... issue welcomes six new investors to the RMBS program, including from Australia and overseas. La Trobe Financial chief corporate treasurer Martin Barry said: "We are very pleased to have priced our seventh RMBS transaction following an extensive international ...

Frydenberg splashes $50m to pursue financial services crime

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... its own activity. Frydenberg added the Government asked the Attorney-General's department (ADG) to consider whether corporate crime should be added to the Federal Court's jurisdiction. If the ADG were to consider the move prudent, criminal financial ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... already a pretty low-return environment," he says. Government bonds are a good example of duration, while short-dated corporate bonds have credit exposure. Due to budget deficits in recent years, Harper says the Federal Government has issued a large ...