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Wells Fargo coughs up $4.5 billion

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... employees to open new accounts and products for existing customers, often without their consent or under false pretences, with little regard to their needs and wellbeing. US Attorney for the Western district of North Carolina, Andrew Murray, said the ...

New Aussie ETF to invest in FAANGs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... were buying international funds was to get exposure to these particular American growth stories. But they also wanted a little bit extra, and so we have added stocks like Tesla and Baidu." The ETF will track an index created by ICE Data Indices (Intercontinental ...

Bleak year for dividend growth in Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... time in at least seven years. "Australian dividends last year dropped back below the 2015 level and have only grown by a little over three fifths in the last 10 years, making it among the weakest of the big developed market performers. This in part reflects ...

Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... to neutral and Blackrock's Global Allocation Aus D fund from silver to bronze. Morningstar said AMP's fund demonstrated little discernable competitive advantage in key areas of its team and process, while numerous changes to the team for BlackRock's ...

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... first half with a bounce back in the second half, assuming that we've contained the virus at that point. So I'm a little more negative than the market right now," Green said. Negative, too, on economic growth in China. "People were getting happier ...

Industry butt heads over super guarantee

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... private sector in understanding whether Australians have sufficient funds to drawdown on during their retirement. "There is little evidence on the adequacy of retirement income in Australia because of a lack of good quality data," it said. "Australians ...

AMPFPA action progresses, associations merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... protracted. Macdonald has met with AMP four times since November to discuss possible solutions but said there has been little progress, he said. "Most of our members who are staying want to know what the future business model looks like. They've ...

Perth advice firm folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... realisable. The liquidator tried shopping the domain name to business brokers, in hope of recovering some value, but received little interest. At the same time, it owed about $1.3 million to creditors, the most significant of which was a $1.1 million ...

Robo-advice to be worth US$1.4 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... Wealthfront were among the first to step into this gap a decade ago. They offer algorithm-driven financial planning services with little to no human supervision." In 2017, assets under management in the robo-advice sector amounted to US$240 billion globally ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... (ECB) first Governing Council meeting for 2020 - Madam Christine Lagarde's second meeting as ECB president - provided little excitement. It's steady as it was... The ECB kept monetary policy unchanged. "The interest rate on the main refinancing ...