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More engagement with custodians needed: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) is urging institutional investors to forge closer relationships with custodians to ensure better outcomes are achieved. ACSA released a report describing the evolving role custodians play in Australia's ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney's last days on the job would have gotten more press were it not for the more pressing concern of the coronavirus. To be sure, there was nothing noteworthy in Carney's final monetary policy committee ...

Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
The Actuaries Institute has called for urgent reform of Australia's $5 billion disability income insurance sector. The institute said it has established a taskforce saying that failure to implement significant changes will reduce consumer access to ...

Perpetual head jumps for greener pastures

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
A Perpetual general manager has packed his bags, departing the financial services firm for a simpler life in Hobart, Tasmania. Perpetual general manager of corporate finance and investor relations, Andrew Ehlich, resigned last month after a 13-year ...

Separate advice and product: AIOFP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... financial losses from those failures factored into the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. The AIOFP said it agrees with the "general thrust" of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort and findings from the Royal Commission but it is proposing an internal ...

Magellan cracks $100 billion

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... in chest beating. The markets can be humbling...next month we could be under that if they don't go well," Magellan general manager of distribution Frank Casarotti told Financial Standard. "No one here is doing high fives or [popping] champagne corks. ...

Macquarie suit to lead Challenger joint venture

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
Challenger and an American fund manager have hired from Macquarie's Sydney offices, as they appoint an Australia head for their joint venture which is readying a credit fund. Ares Australia Management was set up in October last year as a joint venture ...

Former CBA, MLC executive joins reinsurer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... market strategy and sales, as well as the development of solutions for its clients. Gilling will report to Tyson Johnston, general manager of the firm's local division, who welcomed the appointment. Gilling joins from Reinsurance Group of America where ...

Retirement income review must focus on women: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... how the different elements of the retirement system work together, noting issues with their integration and the system's general complexity have caused low engagement. "This complexity means most Australians do not have a good understanding of the rules ...

Future Fund chief to lead IFM Investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... role on 28 February 2020. IFM is expected to advise on his commencement date soon. In the meantime, Future Fund's general counsel and chief risk officer Cameron Price will act as Neal's replacement as the fund looks for a permanent replacement ...