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Financial scams smash Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
Latest research from KPMG shows financial scams are hitting Australia harder than both the US and UK. The consulting giant's inaugural Global Banking Fraud survey found Australia suffered a disproportionately high volume of financial scam attempts in ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
The G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan has come and gone. Except for the photo-op, the leaders of the G18 could all have stayed at home and nobody would have noticed. The world's attention was all about the US-China trade deal or no deal tete-a-tete. The ...

Modern slavery rife across sectors: Fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... to map out their supply chains where the practise is deeply embedded, according to a fund manager. Ausbil head of ESG research Mans Carlsson-Sweeny said the agricultural sector, nail salons, car wash businesses and labour hire companies are some of the ...

Nikko AM names new distribution head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... spent eight years at Blackrock Australia including a stint as the investment giant's head of national key accounts and research. Prior to joining Blackrock, he spent six years in business development and research at Colonial First State. In his new role ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
The way it's going, the rally in iron ore prices will keep on going and going. Iron ore prices ended the first half of 2019 at US$109.18/metric tonne, representing a 57.8% rally from the US$69.20 it fetched six months earlier. The world's largest ...

Advice affordability a growing concern

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
Latest research from Investment Trends shows financial advisers are becoming increasingly concerned with how to provide affordable advice. Investment Trends' 2019 Planner Technology Report revealed more advisers are struggling to provide affordable ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
There's no question about it, for sure and for certain the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates again. RBA governor Philip Lowe told us so when he addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Adelaide ...

Instos flex influence over investee companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... Superannuation funds and fund managers wield significant influence over capital allocation decisions in companies they invest in, research from Monash Business School finds. About 275 Australian institutional investors, the majority of which work in ...

MySuper eyes SMSF stronghold

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
MySuper could soon surpass self-managed super funds as the preferred retirement savings vehicle for Australians, a new Rainmaker report shows. Using the latest APRA data, Rainmaker's MySuper Report found the MySuper asset pool hit $713 billion at ...

Genetic tests no barrier to life insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... consultation with the insurance industry. FSC chief executive Sally Loane said: "We know the community benefits from genomic research and the Moratorium is key to giving Australians the reassurance they need and the flexibility to evolve as the science ...