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Chief economist update: Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... US and in India, among others that are already prompting renewed containment measures. Then again, as the European Central Bank (ECB) staff recently noted, "By virtue of the experience gained on how to deal with the pandemic, these responses are assumed ...

MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... them. A TAL policy from her time working at Telstra paid her a TPD claim and a BT policy from her time working at St George Bank also paid out a claim. But, the largest TPD claim amount Mary should have been able to access was through CommInsure via ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
New research from Rainmaker Information has found that high performance Australian equity funds significantly underperformed their benchmark over the three years to June 2020. The median high performance fund underperformed its benchmark by 300 basis ...

Chief economist update: ECB keeps it steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... renewed appreciation in the euro currency - to which ECB president Christine Lagarde explained that while it was discussed the bank does not target the exchange rate. The euro has appreciated by 5.8% against the US dollar this year to date and by 11.1% ...

OpenInvest names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... executive general manager corporate and institutional banking. He previously spent over a decade in senior roles at ABN AMRO Bank in London. OpenInvest chief executive Andrew Varlamos said: "Spiro has extensive experience within the financial services ...

Interim insolvency protections extended

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Small businesses suffering financial hardship as a result of COVID-19 will have temporary insolvency and bankruptcy protections in place until the end of the year. The federal government has extended temporary insolvency and bankruptcy protections until ...

Australian Unity profits plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
Australian Unity has seen its profits plummet more than 70% compared to the previous financial year, with the group noting the impacts of COVID-19 saw it miss out on about $26 million in profit. Australian Unity reported a profit after income tax of ...

CFS super distribution lead joins Allianz Retire+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... Allianz Retire+ from Colonial First State where he led the distribution efforts for FirstChoice Employer Super and Commonwealth Bank's Essential Super for three years. He also served as head of distribution strategy and implementation for two years prior ...

Super funds to face parliamentary grilling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
Some of the country's biggest super funds are set to face parliamentary scrutiny tomorrow as part of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics ongoing review. Hostplus, AMP and Cbus are three of the big names set to front the committee ...

Mainstream expands private equity offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... for accounting, CRM, investment and a configurable limited partner (LP) investor portal. The group signed Korea Development Bank Asia (KDBA) as its first APAC based client to be administered on Allvue (formerly AltaReturn). Mainstream said it will administer ...