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icare board appoints Willment

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
Mercer Australia chief investment officer Kylie Willment has joined the board of workplace insurer, icare. Willment is a new non-executive director, joining alongside Viriginia Malley who is currently deputy chair of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation ...

Retail funds to benefit from YFYS test changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... Toyota Super (9bps), BT Super and AFLPA & AFL Industry MySuper from AMP (8bps each), TWU Super (7bps), and Mercer WGSP and Virgin Money (6bps each). MLC, Commonwealth Essential Super, Qantas's Glidepath and Mercy Super will see an improvement of 5bps ...

Pendal appoints head of product

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... development to ongoing management, the firm said. He reports to Pendal investment director Dan Campbell. He joins from AMP Australia, where he was contracting as a senior product consultant. In 2018, he established GAM Investments' operations in ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... Property Price Index : rose 5.4% this quarter. rose 7.5% over the last 12 months. total value of residential dwellings in Australia rose $449.9 billion to $8293.2 billion this quarter. This, according to the national statistician is "the largest rise ...

Rest hires from AustralianSuper, Hostplus

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... Sheridan joins from Hostplus where she was the Victoria state manager. She has 20 years of experience and has worked with Virgin Money and boutique wealth firms. Lastly, Bart Healy has been promoted from a Queensland-based senior relationship manager ...

Retail funds take out MySuper performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... of one industry fund, led MySuper performance for the three years to March end, according to latest Rainmaker analysis. Virgin Money Lifestage Tracker 1973-1983 returned 9.3% over three years, followed by UniSuper's balanced option and GuildSuper ...

Go, iron ore, go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... Besides these, China's anti-pollution drive has driven steel producers to buy higher quality iron ore exports from Australia and Brazil. But it's the mines down under that's reaping most of the benefits - despite Australia's brewing diplomatic ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... debt in its fight against COVID-19. But we don't have to go so long and faraway for our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Our dear central bank has increased debt purchases in efforts to keep interest rates low. According to Reuters, the ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... And it will pack a punch. As per IMF 2020 nominal GDP estimates, this is equivalent to the total national output of Australia and Sweden combined with the island country of Tuvalu as spare change. To be sure, recent headlines report that POTUS is determined ...

AMP Bank boss exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... role in a similar capacity. Danielle Keighery also joined as chief customer officer this month, finishing up at Virgin Australia after almost 11 years.