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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
Australia leading index The future's looking good for Australia. This is the indication from the latest reading of the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity. The six month annualised growth rate in the index - "which indicates ...

Fidelity names Australian MD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
Fidelity International has appointed a new managing director for its Australian operations. In addition to her role as investment director, Alva DeVoy has been promoted as managing director, Australia. DeVoy will be based in Sydney and assume responsibility ...

Pan-Tribal Global Equity Fund added to platforms

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
The Pan-Tribal Global Equity Fund has been added to the MLC Wrap and Navigator platforms. The Pan-Tribal Global Equity Fund was launched in November 2014. The Fund is managed by New York-based Davis Advisors, which has more than US$26 billion funds ...

Keybridge executive director resigns, chair appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
Keybridge Capital has appointed a new chair and non-executive director while director Antony Sormann has departed. Jeremy Kriewaldt is currently a partner at Atanaskovic Hartnell, specialising in corporate and commercial law. He was previously a partner ...

Magellan flags risk plan for Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
Magellan chairman Brett Cairns has publically addressed the risk of anything happening to "key man" Hamish Douglass, reassuring investors that a plan of succession is in place. Addressing shareholders at the investment firm's annual general meeting ...

ASIC finds life claim rates wildly inconsistent

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
ASIC has found a "considerable variation" in denied claims across life insurers, with TPD denial rates as high as 37% in one instance. The regulator has issued its industry review of life insurance claims, and found that while the majority (90%) of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Australia business confidence The latest NAB monthly business survey's business confidence index came in at +6 in September, unchanged from August and is consistent with its +6 long-term average. The business conditions index rose to +8 in September ...

State Street custody boss departs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
State Street's head of global services, Australia and New Zealand has left the company. Paul Khoury has held multiple positions at State Street since 2001, beginning with head of product services, chief operating officer for Australia, head of asset ...

CBA partners to finance clean energy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank has partnered with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to launch a new $100 million energy efficient equipment finance program to provide lower cost finance to Australian businesses and not-for-profits that meet certain ...

Adviser reform about recovering social licence

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Risk advisers must accept controversial reforms are about salvaging consumer trust and should unite to rebuild it rather than drive the industry apart, a panel of insurance industry stakeholders said on day two of the AFA's annual conference. Risk adviser ...