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Actuaries Institute appoints 2020 president

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
The Actuaries Institute has appointed a new president for 2020, with eyes set on giving young actuaries a voice. Hoa Bui, currently also a director at KPMG Actuarial and partner-in-charge of actuarial and financial risk at KPMG Australia, has nabbed ...

Billionaire investor warns against buying the dip

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... market volatility had presented his firm with several investment opportunities. "At [Thorney Opportunities] we always keep an eye on the short-term fluctuations of the market however our main focus continues to be on the medium-to-long-term outlook," ...

Super women: Female-led funds on top

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
Super funds with female trustees and female leaders can boost their member's super by $100,000 over their working life. That's according to the latest data coming out of Rainmaker Information, which found that female-led funds with MySuper products ...

Stanford Brown hires Deloitte director, acquires firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... acquiring an accounting practice or hiring accountants to build the unit. At the same time, Stanford Brown has also kept an eye out for advice practices up for sale, and in December announced the acquisition of one such firm from Godfrey Penbroke. World ...

Queensland funds inch closer to merger

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... interest of QSuper members," Luke said. Luke's Sunsuper counterpart Andrew Fraser said the fund would still keep a close eye to the impact the merger would have on members. "Any merger will only proceed on the basis it will benefit the membership ...

Pinnacle boutique eyes wholesale market

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
A well-regarded infrastructure boutique, which recently co-invested with HESTA and First State, has opened its strategy to wholesale investors for the first time. Palisade Investment Partners has set up a feeder fund for wholesale investors, which will ...

Cbus overhauls insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... their age in a move designed to more closely reflect what it costs to provide cover, the fund said. "We always keep a close eye on our insurance pricing to give you the best-value cover we can. And when we last changed our pricing in September 2017 ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus causes equity market correction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
"Coronavirus spreads to 33 countries in nine days" "The coronavirus crisis has deepened over the weekend, with the number of countries affected climbing past 60 and the death toll hitting 3000." So goes another grim headline from Associated Press which ...

Moelis Australia names co-chiefs, acquires lender

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
Moelis Australia has promoted two managing directors to joint chief executives as it announces plans to acquire a local non-bank lender, eyeing a bigger slice of the $1.8 trillion Australian residential mortgage market. Julian Biggins and Chris Wyke ...

SMSF Association reaffirms ATO partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... Association Sydney office in the middle of this year. O'Halloran added that the SMSF Association and the ATO do not always see eye to eye, but the formal agreement remains important. "We have some pretty candid discussions about what we disagree on ...