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Crestone bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... Greenberg were appointed as investment advisers in Crestone's Sydney offices. Shalhoub joined Crestone from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he was an executive manager in the private banking business. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a director ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... and developing economies (EMDEs) is also expected to remain subdued, continuing a decade of disappointing outcomes." World Bank projections show US economic growth slowing from an estimated 1.6% in 2019 to 1.4% this year - a 0.1 pps downgrade from its ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Investment bank and financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse has backed sustainability as the dominant investment theme of the coming decade, despite ongoing uproar around its investment in fossil fuels. The prediction comes as Australia's bushfire ...

Global manager's Aussie distribution head retires

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... Management's where he was the head of distribution for ANZ. Over his 30 year career, he also worked at AMP Asset Management, Lloyds Bank and Westpac. "While we are sad to see Murray leave, we have a strong succession plan in place to ensure the continuity ...

Latitude Financial joins banks on AFCA complaints list

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... biggest failed IPO of 2019. The data, published by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, pegged the Commonwealth Bank as the most complained about financial services institution in the country, followed by ANZ and NAB. Also making the top 10 ...

Free advice for bushfire victims

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... company also announced a disaster relief package for its client's impacted by the fires. The package includes waiving certain bank fees for those requiring urgent access to their funds, temporarily postponing home loan repayments, a one-off three month ...

RBA crushes hopes of Libra launch

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia will not allow tech giant Facebook to launch its cryptocurrency Libra in Australia until all risks and regulatory requirements have been mitigated. And even if these regulatory requirements were met there wouldn't be ...

IOOF identifies 67 high risk advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
Embattled wealth manager IOOF has told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics that it has identified 67 "higher risk" financial advisers within its business. The number comes as IOOF fronts the committee to answer questions previously ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... least now Brexit uncertainty has been removed (with or without a deal) and this time, backed by the UK Parliament at that. Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney cares. In his speech at the BOE's Future of Inflation Targeting Conference in London ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... number of threats poised to disrupt the already tepid global rally. That's according to the latest report from the World Bank on the global economic outlook for 2020, aptly named "Fragile, Handle with Care". Trade tensions, slowing growth in major economies ...