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Royal Commission sobering and overdue: Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... strong, they should be profitable, they should be robust and they should be, above all, ethical," Bowen said. Labor, in principle, accepts all of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's 76 recommendations. "We would have a Treasury taskforce to work with a Shorten ...

Royal Commission principles not simply an add-on

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
A set of ideas or principles aligned to community standards resulting from the financial services Royal Commission must not be solely grafted as optional extras for better business profits, an ethics specialist believes. The Ethics Centre executive ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... APRA-regulated Australian funds is shaping their approach to investing. "That after-tax investing is well accepted in principle but minimally used in practice gives a sense of the opportunity still unexploited for most funds," she said. "The Productivity ...

NEOS Life expands to the west coast

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... manager. Kon Vaporakis is the new senior underwriter. He spent more than eight years at AIA Australia, working as a principle underwriter and life underwriter. NEOS recently completed several hires to build its distribution and underwriting teams across ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
Ausbil's in-house ESG research team has matured to the point where it's leading investment strategy creation and attracting a wider international audience. The asset manager's call to develop its own ESG team and not buy research "off the shelf" means ...

Janus Henderson promotes talent

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
An internal promotion has seen Janus Henderson Investors' fixed interest team gain a co-portfolio manager. The capability is further boosted with the appointment of a new analyst. Shan Kwee is transitioning from credit strategist to co-portfolio manager ...

Survey says no to subsidising life insurance for genetically at-risk Aussies

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... Australians are open to taking a genetic test to predict the likelihood of becoming ill in future, but also support the principle of setting insurance premiums individually based on the likelihood of making a claim," Kirwan said. "Just over 60% of Australians ...

Labor franking credit changes fair but not the best: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... policy reduces the incentive for retirees to invest in Aussie stocks rather than going overseas. It also abandons the principle that all company profits should be taxed at an investor's marginal rate of income tax. The report concludes abolishing ...

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
ASIC chair James Shipton said he is in favour of applying the Banking Executive Accountability Regime to senior ASIC staff while being quizzed on the regulator's current governance. After telling Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr that he believes ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... doesn't outperform the market but makes enough to earn the market return. It's generally adhering to the buy-and-hold principle with minimal trading. "There a handful of ETFs that are like that, but most aren't." Putnins says most ETFs hold ...