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Big bedrooms pose challenge for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... have been sales assistants, aged or disabled carers, and chefs. Alternatively, the fastest declining occupations are secretary, retail manager, and general clerk. He said what this shows is that Australians are obsessed with lifestyle and advisers "need ...

More clarity needed on NAB redundancies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... Thorburn, labelling the announcement as disappointing off the back of its reported $6.64 billion profit. FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano said more detail is needed around how NAB has determined the jobs are to be cut, and where and when they will ...

US recommends asset manager stress tests be removed

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... and promoting infrastructure investment by insurers through appropriately calibrated capital requirements. US Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said: "The regulatory framework for both the asset management and insurance industries can be significantly ...

Trustee Partners recruits ahead of opening NZ office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... most recently partner and chair of the investment committee at a financial planning practice, and is a former company secretary of Count Financial. Meanwhile, Hartnett joins from NAB's Anatares Equities business where she was an associate research manager ...

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... modest growth, a tight/tightening labour market but modest growth in wages and inflation. To quote former US Defence Secretary Donald Henry Rumsfeld, "these are known knowns." Aside from the reference to the disruptions caused by the hurricanes, the ...

Values-based approach will advance advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... because it was close to her parent's home. Yet in her first encounter with the man, when she was working for his private secretary, Zelda was taken aback by his approach to speak to her in Afrikaans. She said Mandela once said: "When you speak to a man ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... leaders rolled out their tax plan this week predicted it will widen the budget gap over the next 10 years." US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin argues that the additional economic growth (ergo, more government revenue) that would be generated by the ...

Contango appoints small cap portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... [the quarterly report], CGA may not have sufficient cash to continue funding its operations?" In response, CGA company secretary Hari Morfis said the negative operating cashflows "reflect the investment by the company in key staff and the continued expansion ...

First Super makes board appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... McDine is a former director at AustralianSuper and Cbus, a former executive member of the ACTU, and former National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union. First Super chief executive Bill Watson said McDine has extensive experience in serving the ...

CBA class action moves forward

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... board. New electee Whitfield is also a director at New South Wales Treasury Corporation (TCorp) and until recently, was secretary of NSW Treasury and of NSW Industrial Relations. Prior to NSW Treasury, Whitfield held senior positions at Westpac spaning ...