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Leave dividend imputation system as is: Plato

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
Plato Investment Management has set up an online petition to ensure the current dividend imputation system remains untouched should the Labor Party win the next federal election. The fund manager has already garnered the support of 500 signatories. ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
MLC Life Insurance appointed a 30-year industry veteran as its new head of underwriting. Mick Jones will join MLC in August and report to chief underwriter and head of new business Debbie Kennedy. He will be responsible for leading the underwriting ...

Chief economist update: Steady at 24 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) didn't disappoint when it kept the official cash rate unchanged at a record low 1.5% following its 3 July board meeting. It has been 24 months now - the longest in recent history - that the official cash rate ...

PM Capital offers new LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund (ASX: PGF) and its subsidiary PM Capital GO 2025 yesterday announced a new listed investment company. PTrackERS, is a specially-developed converting security. In seven years' time, PTrackERS security holders ...

Sydney boutique shutters

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
One of the boutique fund managers under Challenger's Fidante Partners' multi-manager umbrella has closed. A spokesperson for Fidante confirmed Tempo Asset Management has closed after failing to reach sufficient scale of assets under management since ...

AstuteWheel speeds up risk advice timeframe

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
Financial planning software provider AstuteWheel launched its latest tool which slashes the risk advice process to one hour. Astute Insurance Planner was created in partnership with an OmniLife app and YTML to integrate different systems and help financial ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
The Shanghai Composite index's drop into bear market territory may have elicited some negative Trump thoughts, but China's response - through the accompanying depreciation of the yuan may have been "I'm taking you with me." Such is the ugliness ...

Unintended consequences for opt-in insurance: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
Group life insurance premiums are set to rise if the Federal Government implements proposed changes to default insurance in superannuation, according to KPMG. The firm's latest research forecasts a 50% reduction in group life insurance cover as a result ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
Cryptocurrency usage in Australia is currently not large enough to raise policy concerns for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), an official from the central bank said in Sydney yesterday. The Reserve Bank has closely followed developments in the crypto ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? If we're talking about the US and China, it appears that the answer is that the immovable object (China) drops. China's Shanghai Composite index dropped to 2844.51 points from ...