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Interest rates to remain on hold for some time

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... just the federal government, it's the state governments as well," Bullock said. "The fact that we've had to revise up our public demand forecasts, it's reflected the fact that there's been more announcements and more things going on." HSBC chief economist ...

E&P Financial advances delisting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... "consistently and materially" undervalued relative to its fundamental value and peers. E&P will shortly face an upcoming public inquiry into its role in the collapse of Dixon Advisory. The senate referred the inquiry to the Wealth Management Companies ...

JP Morgan subsidiaries fined $230m by regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... pooled investor funds to invest in private equity and hedge funds that would later distribute shares of companies that went public to the Conduit funds. The regulator said that, contrary to what JPMS told investors, a JPMorgan affiliate had total control ...

Cbus names chief strategy officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... the mid-1990s before becoming a political adviser to former Victorian premier Steve Bracks. He then joined the Victorian public service. As executive director of marketing and communications, he led WorkSafe Victoria's campaign to reduce the rate ...

Licensees pay $92m in compensation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
ASIC has released its third publication on information lodged under the reportable situations regime. The publication provides high-level insights into reporting trends from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, and covers licensee population reporting, breach ...

Cole puts funds on notice as expenditure data is revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... appropriate under BFID is not whether it passes the 'pub test', although trustees might well have good reason to take public opinion and reputational considerations into account. The measure is whether trustees can demonstrate that the spend ...

ASIC secures win against HCF Life

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... ruled in ASIC's favour, finding that a 'pre-existing condition' term in certain HCF Life policies was liable to mislead the public. The term was used in three contracts issued under HCF Life's 'Recover' range of products. ASIC alleged that the term could ...

Australia a top destination for international investment: QIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... score. "Australia is weighed down by its net foreign debt position, which sits at 32% of GDP. This offsets a favourable public sector debt position where gross government debt is just 55% of GDP, which is significantly lower than the global average of ...

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... of the current environment. Diversification also remains an important theme with the contributions of both private and public markets across the investment spectrum highlighted." The study found that macroeconomic risks, such as higher than expected ...

Down but not out: Busting defined benefit myths

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... one million member accounts, Edibam said at a media roundtable. Edibam added that most DB funds in Australia are large public sector funds and remain "very significant" in Australia. One myth, Edibam said, is that when DB funds de-risk, they merely shift ...