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ClearBridge launches unhedged fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
Franklin Templeton subsidiary ClearBridge Investments has launched the unhedged version of the ClearBridge RARE Infrastructure Income Fund following investor demand. The fund, like the hedged version, invests in global listed infrastructure securities ...

VFMC adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has appointed a public policy expert as a non-executive director. Tom Considine is an advisory and investment partner at Sayers Group having joined from Suburban Rail Loop Authority where he was interim chief executive. ...

AFA defends industry against Labor attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has slammed the Labor Party's attack on financial advisers, which paints the profession as dodgy and continues to rip-off consumers. AFA acting chief executive Phil Anderson is calling for an end to the "persecution" ...

ClearView risk chief joins IOOF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
IOOF has appointed ClearView's chief risk officer to a newly created role, with ClearView nabbing the former chief of risk for Commonwealth Bank's wealth management arm. A spokesperson has confirmed Orla Cowan departed ClearView after about 18 months ...

ASIC takes on NAB for fee-for-no service breaches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
The corporate regulator is fighting tooth and nail to make National Australia Bank pay a hefty penalty for charging customers fees in return for no service. In the Federal Court this morning, ASIC representative Christopher Archibald QC recalled the ...

Employers should pay SG rise: ASFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) showed businesses can afford to pay the increase of the Superannuation Guarantee without cutting the wages of employees. As of July 1, the SG rate will rise from 9.5% to 10% and ASFA argued ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
"It's raining men! Hallelujah! It's raining men!" -The Weather Girls Australian 'men' (and women) at work' that is. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS): "Employment increased by 115,000 people in May, following the 31,000 ...

Your Future, Your Super passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
The Your Future, Your Super reforms were passed in the Senate today. One Nation and Jackie Lambie voted with the government in favour of the bill, while Labor and the Greens objected to it. However, an amendment was passed which will delay benchmarking ...

More super tax concessions on table

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
The Treasury Laws Amendment (More Flexible Superannuation) Bill was debated in the Senate today, with an amendment suggested by Senator Pauline Hanson. Hanson and her One Nation colleagues circulated an amendment that would see people over the age of ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
The Fed has spoken and Wall Street didn't like what it heard and saw (in the dot plots). US equities painted the board red, with all benchmark indices closing on the down low, while yields on 10-year US Treasuries went on the up and up. This is ...