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Zurich appoints distribution team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
Zurich Life and Investments has announced the details of its new distribution team following the integration of OnePath Life. Nathan Taggart holds the role of head of sales, while Phil Gould is now head of distribution analytics and governance. Other ...

Factor investing, sustainability a perfect match

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... are chosen". Robeco said that generic, more fundamental approaches to sustainability face a number of serious pitfalls. "For one, their simplistic approach to ESG scoring can lead to undesired biases; for example, towards large-cap European firms," it ...

OneVue recoups $4.36m from Sargon

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... advisers can continue servicing their clients without disruption," OVH managing director Connie Mckeage said. Madison was one of Sargon's many acquisitions in recent years. Sargon bought it in April 2018 from PHAROS Financial Group and had plans to rebrand ...

ATO clamps down on auditor number misuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... de-registered. Two of those top 100 auditors were flagged by the ATO because they were doing more than 2000 audits each and only had one referral source. The top 100 auditors now do 35% of the SMSF population. "The industry is becoming a lot more concentrated," ...

Profits down as Perpetual looks to future

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... markets. The second quarter saw the firm return to positive flows, as cash and fixed income ballooned to represent more than one third of the firm's total funds under management. "This demonstrates the strength of our capabilities beyond Australian equities," ...

New private credit fund to launch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... underlying assets," he said. Portfolio manager, Travis Miller said: "Our goal is to build out the iPartners Investment Fund as one of the most diversified private credit funds in the Australian market." "We can do this with the unique skillset and experience ...

HSBC to cut 35,000 jobs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... changes are significant and warned of "meaningful" reductions to the workforce as he presented the results. "This represents one of the deepest restructuring and simplification programs in the bank's history," Quinn said. HSBC reported a profit before ...

Chief economist update: Working nine to five, barely getting by

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... wages are spent on all items, volatile or not) - has weakened to 0.4% in the December 2019 quarter from 0.7% in the previous one. This would impair Australian households' ability to pay down debt - household debt to disposable income stood at 186.5% ...

SMSFs interrupted in 2019: SuperConcepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... election mode when the budget was announced last year though, so most of the measures were good news for SMSFs," he said. One proposed change that has not yet been made law would see people over the age of 65 no longer required to meet the work test. ...

Advice complaints low: AFCA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... significant number of new staff, and faced some difficulties training the large volume of new employees up in a short time period. One of the issues AFCA is facing is in pursuing complaints against insolvent firms. Donald said AFCA currently has over ...