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Hermes handbags an emerging asset class for UHNWs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
There's now an index that tracks the value of collectable Hermes bags and they returned 13% in 2019, beating annual returns of other collectables like cars, jewellery, art and rare whisky. Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index, for the first time, added ...

ClearView restructures pricing as life sector struggles

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
The tough times in Australia's life insurance sector have forced the provider to overhaul its pricing. ClearView has revised its pricing across its Life Solutions stepped and hybrid income protection products, as the insurer battles to remain profitable ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
COVID-19, despite its obvious health hazards and hysteria-spooked market volatility, can actually be an opportunity for investors, enabling them to purchase the market's darlings at discounted prices. That's according to Paul Taylor, portfolio ...

Westpac hit with another class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
Westpac confirmed it has been hit with another class action relating to the AUSTRAC scandal. The class action, brought by Johnson Winter & Slattery, has been filed on behalf of certain shareholders who acquired interest in Westpac securities or equity ...

Formalising feedback creates trust: HBL Mann Judd

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
Professional service firms need to better accept feedback from their clients, according to HBL Mann Judd. HBL Mann Judd's Australasian association chair Tony Fittler said accepting feedback is necessary if firms want to institute consistent service ...

Westpac not evacuated, misinformation abounds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
Following reports that Westpac's Sydney offices were evacuated due to a coronavirus scare, the bank has confirmed it is business as usual. The discovery of three Westpac employees at its Barangaroo offices with suspected cases of COVID-19 forced ...

Diversity should not exclude white men: Thinking Ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
Thinking about diversity as more than simply a matter of gender and race could benefit organisations, especially in the investment and pension industries, according to the co-head of the Thinking Ahead Institute. Thinking Ahead Institute at Willis Towers ...

Active managers: Opportunities abound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
While COVID-19 may have some reeling from uncertainty, active managers are seeing it as their time to shine as opportunities for growth crop up. T. Rowe Price's head of investments, Robert Sharps, said while he is not seeing any wholesale change from ...

Lack of independence must be made clear: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Financial advisers will need to provide every retail client a written statement explaining "simply and concisely" why they are not independent, impartial and unbiased; if ASIC's draft recommendations for advice fees are adopted. The purpose, ASIC said ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Is this the stock market crash we have to have? The great reboot from the overvaluation in stock market prices prompted by cheap interest rates that punished savers and drove investors to go look where their capital could get higher returns? The global ...