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Chief economist update: COVID-19 nightmare makes Brexit a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... was and brought closer to home when now reigning Prime Minister Boris Johnson, himself, became infected with the virus. The Bank of England went to work. After keeping the Bank Rate steady at 0.75% since 2018, it chopped 50 basis points to it in an emergency ...

Melbourne boutique partners with Swiss bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
A Melbourne equities boutique and a Swiss private bank have entered a two-way distribution partnership, as each looks to tap into the other's markets. Union Bancaire Privee will market Bell Asset Management's global small and mid cap strategies ...

Schroders nabs Mercer product boss

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... stints as a wealth management technical analyst at MLC and an e-commerce technical and client service manager at Commonwealth Bank. Separately, the firm revealed this week that it is preparing to farewell its local multi-asset deputy head Simon Stevenson ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... of the US economy in 2020 - predicting GDP growth to contract by 6.5% this year - but which world government and central bank hasn't? But grim as the Fed's projections may be, this is better than the World Bank's current revised forecast ...

Boutique expands investment team

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... further develop ESG insights." Most recently, Hall worked as a senior manager of sustainability and ESG at the Commonwealth Bank, where she was responsible for overseeing the creation of its ESG policies and programs. Prior to this, she worked with AMP ...

Pendal bolsters ESG fixed income capability

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... strategies across a range of the firm's funds. Previously, Ciszewski held a number of positions in a trading capacity for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and Sydney. Finally, the firm added a new ESG credit analyst, former Institute for Economics and Peace ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
A Melbourne-based investment management firm says the key to avoiding sequencing risk is to build an "all weather" portfolio. Absolute-return fund Cor Capital said pre-retirees and retirees in particular need to pay attention to sequencing risk to avoid ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... inhabitants of Wuhan in Hubei province in early February. This is at the same time that the Chinese government and the People's Bank of China (PBOC) were rolling out stimulus measures (and continue to do so). China's draconian measures enabled ...

ASIC cracks down on investment manager

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... breaching client money obligations in March this year, after it was found to have deposited client money into unauthorised bank accounts between December 2014 and September 2018. SGSA was charged with two counts of failing to pay client money into segregated ...

Suncorp nabs business, private banking executive

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
Suncorp has hired a former business and private banking executive from the Commonwealth Bank, set to guide the group's path towards digitisation and automation. Adam Bennett has nabbed the chief information officer role, and will join Suncorp from July ...