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Your Future, Your Super passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... morning. "How could it be that someone who calls themselves a Liberal could vote for this bill, could bring into this chamber a bill, which contains in it a provision to enable the Australian Treasurer to take control of Australian people's savings ...

More super tax concessions on table

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... older," Watts said. "She circulated this amendment after she turned 67... Senator Hanson, unlike other people in this chamber, happens to tick each box as a high-income earner and age 67. "What sort of political representative sets out thinking about ...

The secret to looking good in the media: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... as being "out to get" some brands in interest of their cause. "Sometimes those activists are acting in their own echo chamber. They are really just talking to themselves," Brown cautioned. Brown offered one example of a brand she worked with that was ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... Kaplan begged to disagree (and he knows what he's talking about). In a virtual conference with the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce, Kaplan cautioned that "we are now at a point where I'm observing excesses and imbalances in financial markets" ...

Charter Hall bleeds profits, appoints director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... non-executive director. She is currently a non-executive director of Coles Group, nib Holdings and the Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce and consults to McKinsey as a senior advisor in its transformation group. Chow was previously a non-executive ...

Pinnacle boutique to shut fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Systematic global macro manager Two Trees Investment Management is shutting its Australian unit trust, as assets dwindle and the strategy underperforms. The Two Trees Investment Management's Global Macro Fund will be terminated given its small size. ...

Institutional mandates spring back to life

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Superannuation funds are starting to appoint external mandates again after a COVID-19-induced lull, says Pinnacle's managing director Ian Macoun. Pinnacle Investment Management raked in $1.7 billion of net inflows from institutional clients in the three ...

Official recession not that scary: Economists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... (also supported by JobKeeper)." The focus should now be on lifting confidence in the economy, according to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). "[The] release of the June quarter National Accounts is a stark reminder that imposing ...

Advisers file class action against AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
A class action has been filed against AMP by its own advisers in relation to the institution's decision to slash Buyer of Last Resort valuations last year. Almost one year on from the news BOLR valuations would be cut from 4x recurring revenue to ...

New class action regulations slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... these new regulations could be significant. "I don't know what Frydenberg's discussed in his private meeting with the US Chamber of Commerce, but if you were an American multinational worried about Australian class actions this is exactly the kind of ...