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Fidelity backs personality tests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... younger with high disposable income and less likely than the rest of the population to have children. They care about the human interaction with an adviser and want to know they're on the right path. Compass navigators want scaled advice with low fees ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus has gone viral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... was the time when the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the alert level from 3 to 4 - the highest being 6 where the human population is all but consumed by the virus. It would have been much worse in terms of the global growth. Certainly, this current ...

Former Wells Fargo chief banned for life

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... to meet sales targets. The OCC has settled with the bank's former chief administrative officer and director of corporate human resources Hope Hardison, as well as former chief risk officer Michael Loughlin for their roles in the sales misconduct. The ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... superannuation and insurance business models will no longer be appropriate as people live longer and healthier lives - and as human biology becomes largely quantifiable and is able to predict more and more health risks," it argued. With so many unpredictable ...

Millions up in smoke in cannabis scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
Investors promised great returns through a marijuana company have lost it all, as it's alleged the owner - a US film producer - spent the money on a yacht and several luxury cars. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Guy ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
"I've got chills, They're multiplying..." Wall Street is down... with the coronavirus flu! The Dow declined by 0.5%, the S&P 500 by 0.3%, the Nasdaq by 0.02%, and the Russell 2000 by 0.8 after the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted an upturn in the global economy in 2020, though the biggest risk to a rebound is climate change. In 2019 the global economy experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is ...

Shareholder activism on the rise

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... and 100 in 2015," he said. "This is a somewhat remarkable growth rate... There is grist to the idea that to be an actual human selecting actual stocks in the year 2020 pushes owners to be an 'activist'." The largest activist targets for 2019 ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... World Economic Forum found that extreme weather events, climate action failure, natural disasters, biodiversity loss and human-made environmental disasters are set to dominate 2020 and the coming decade. World Economic Forum president Borge Brende said ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... portfolio." McAuley suggests applying three consecutive steps to best build a sustainable portfolio; exclude (companies tainted by human rights violations or weapons manufacturers), promote (companies with good ESG credentials) and contribute (through ...