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World Pension Alliance condemns COVID early release

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Eva Scheerlinck serves as its president. WPA has sent an International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP) endorsement to the OECD about the practice, just as Chile and Peru look to extend COVID ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... given recent news that wage negotiations have settled on the low side. As per Factset, "Kyodo cited Japan Business Federation figures showing major companies have agreed on an average pay hike of 1.82% in this year's annual spring wage negotiations ...

Federation AM awards mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
Federation Asset Management has selected an administrator for its Sustainable Australian Real Asset Trust (SARA). Apex Group will provide fund administration, share registry and regulatory services to Federation's SARA, which will invest in renewable ...

GQG Partners adds to team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... (Governance, Risk and Compliance) Institute and an internationally certified compliance professional with the International Federation of Compliance Associations. Colm Moynihan has been appointed as associate director of fund operations (Australia) ...

Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... started her career as a graduate in audit and assurance at PwC Australia. Grimes was the president of the International Federation of Accountants for two years and is a director on The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board. Challenger chief ...

Westpac puts Australia on bad banking leaderboard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... role in a massive tax-evasion scheme, while the other concerns its role in a money-laundering conspiracy with soccer federation FIFA. Sweden's Swedbank was fines EUR360 million for deficiencies in its risk of money laundering in its Baltic operations. ...

Industry fund adds to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... production advice, biosecurity and natural resource management to rural communities. She was part of the National Farmers' Federation Diversity in Leadership program last year and awarded a scholarship to the Australian Rural Leadership Program in 2017. ...

No such thing as a free lunch: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... government can borrow for five years at just 0.4% and for 10 years at just 0.9%. These are the lowest borrowing costs since Federation." While Lowe stressed monetary financing is not an option in Australia, he said the RBA continues to review overseas ...

US surpasses Asia Pacific for HNWI growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... HNWIs. However, even the exceptionally wealthy did not manage to avoid the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Federation of Exchanges estimates that COVID-19 erased more than $18 trillion from markets in February and March 2020 before a slight ...

FASEA too soft on ethical investing: Advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... advisers have suggested that FASEA's Code of Ethics doesn't go far enough on ethical investing. Appearing on the webinar, Federation Financial Services adviser Dave Rae pointed to an example provided along with the FASEA Code of Ethics' Standard 6. In ...