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Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
It's ironic that for a country known as the United Kingdom, there seems to be an absence of well, unity. The (dis)United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May and her proposed Brexit deal lost big time in the House of Commons by a record 230 ...

ANZ, IOOF revise wealth sale agreement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
The sale of ANZ's pensions and investments business may take longer than anticipated with contracts now amended following APRA's regulatory action against IOOF. Providing a further update on the sale, ANZ said it has agreed an amendment with ...

Budget surplus unlikely as economy stalls: Fitch

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
Economic slowdown and waning tax revenue is set to delay the Federal Government's 2019/20 financial year surplus, according to market analysts at Fitch Solutions. In December 2018, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann announced ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
A retiree body that was set up before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built shutters its doors this year - in a clear sign of the times. The Superannuated Commonwealth Officers' Association, established in 1923, had 50,000 members at its peak. But ...

Finalists unveiled for FS Investment Leadership Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
It is competition time for Australia's top investment talent as the Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards 2019 unveils its shortlist. This year will see investment giants vie alongside small boutiques to take home 19 awards. AMP Capital ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
California has become the first state in the US to legislate gender board diversity for publicly listed companies. From 1 January 2019 public companies headquartered in California must have at least one woman on the board of directors by year end or ...

Best-in-show splits industry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The best-in-show default superannuation fund shortlist the Productivity Commission wants to launch before June 2021 has divided industry opinion. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Eva Scheerlinck said the Commission's ...

Government needs to rethink CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The government should abandon the Retirement Income Covenant proposed last year, if it can't sufficiently remediate its flaws by the deadline, the Productivity Commission says in the final report. Treasury has already extended the deadline on Comprehensive ...

Game over for grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
As far as the Productivity Commission is concerned, grandfathered commissions are dead in the water. In its final report the commission states that the time for transition is over; "the commission supports a full ban of all commissions on superannuation ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Australia's superannuation sector in trying to digest the Productivity Commission's 700-page report with its 31 recommendations need to keep in mind the massive structural problems it is trying to fix. The fundamental problem that has perplexed ...