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Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
All of Metropolitan Melbourne will be back in lockdown before the clock strikes midnight tonight. Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services advises that from 11:59pm, 8 July 2020, Melburnians will only be allowed to leave home for four ...

AustralianSuper throws weight behind SDG platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
AustralianSuper, the nation's largest superannuation fund, has joined British Columbia Investment Management and PGGM to establish the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP). The platform will be driven by artificial ...

Industry fund eyes KiwiSaver accounts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
A $3.4 billion industry superannuation fund has struck an exclusive partnership which it hopes will help it attract 3000 new members each year. First Super, which traditionally services the paper and timber industry but is public offer, will now be ...

Favour turns to active management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Amid the market volatility the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in, a new survey has revealed that sentiment is turning in favour of active investment management. The Natixis Investment Managers survey found that 79% of finance professionals globally and 78% ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
A financial adviser has questioned whether superannuation needs to be tailored to women specifically, as female focussed funds - such as Verve and Fairvine - grow in popularity. Lusher Financial Services adviser Christine Lusher said she does not think ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
"This is a once-in-a-100 year type event, we haven't seen this sort of thing in Australia since the end of the first World War..." This was how Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the coronavirus outbreak shortly after the World Health ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Law firm Slater and Gordon has slammed AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari's criticism of litigation funding and class actions, as AMP continues to battle lawsuits sparked by the Royal Commission. Slater and Gordon head of class actions Ben Hardwick ...

AFCA sees 14% rise in complaints

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has reported a 13.7% rise in monthly complaints in the last financial year with most being about superannuation, insurance claims and credit. Australians in dispute with their super fund, bank, insurer or ...

Super funds merge, board revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
First State Super and VicSuper have completed their merger, revealing fee reductions and board changes. The merged fund now manages over $120 billion on behalf of 1.1 million members, including healthcare and aged care workers, teachers, police and ...

Foreign exchange broker banned

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
ASIC has banned a former foreign exchange broker from the industry for three years, after it was found he was not fit to provide financial services and had not complied with related laws. Steven Marsh, a former employee of Forex Capital Trading, engaged ...