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Life insurer early intervention a win: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
New research strongly backs the economic and health benefits of allowing life insurers to provide intervention and rehabilitation treatment for thousands of Australians each year. The study, conducted by the Financial Services Council with the help ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 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 June 5 board meeting. Except for a few tweaks in the wordings here and there, RBA Governor Philip Lowe's statement ...

Global fund manager creates executive role

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
A $14 billion global fund manager gaining ground in the Australian market has appointed a director of investor relations for Asia Pacific to a newly created role. Mark Yetman joins Capital Fund Management (CFM) after 13 years with Dimensional Fund Advisors ...

Zurich seeks new investment chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... candidates. Ebstein will commence in his new role on 1 October 2018. Earlier this year Zurich appointed former IOOF head of research and portfolio construction Matthew Drennan as head of savings and investments in its wealth and investments business. ...

Members abandon bank-aligned group insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
Latest Rainmaker group insurance research shows the share of superannuation fund members associated with a bank-aligned group insurer has halved in the last four years. The number of not-for-profit (NFP) superannuation members linked to a bank-aligned ...

Promotions at Zenith to capitalise on growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
Growth in its managed accounts offering has seen Zenith Investment Partners promote its head of research to a new role and add to its investment consulting team. Zenith head of research Bronwen Moncrieff has been promoted to the role of general manager ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
We are one and we are many, and all of us don't expect any movement from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) when it meets at 2.30pm today for its monthly monetary policy deliberations. Yes Virginia, RBA Governor Philip Lowe has already gone on ...

Fidelity extends institutional capability

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... consultants. The appointments are the latest in a series of hires at Fidelity, with former T. Rowe Price head of Australian research Viral Patel linking with the firm last month.

Industry fund welcomes new investment head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... currency. Prior to Frontier, Selioutine was a quantitative analyst at Antipodean Capital Management and also served as a research assistant at the University of Melbourne. Selioutine replaces acting head of investment Alister Wong, who has departed the ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Quitaly and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's exit and the curious case of the US-North Korea summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into ...