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Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
Forget John Maynard Keynes. Forget David Ricardo. A new economic sheriff is in town and his name is Donald J. Trump. POTUS has gone against Keynes' counter-cyclical prescription by increasing fiscal spending - tax cuts and increased expenditure ...

Infocus grows executive lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
Two senior Australian Unity executives have joined the leadership team of Infocus Wealth Management. Australian Unity's head of investment research Jeff Mitchell has been appointed to the newly created role of chief investment officer at the dealer ...

AMP claims director exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
The director of claims at AMP has resigned after a little over 12 months in the role. AMP confirmed Jen Mitchell has left the organisation, with Margot Wilson taking her place on an interim basis. Melbourne-based Mitchell joined AMP as head of claims ...

Disability income insurance an ongoing concern: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
Disability income insurance (DII) continues to be a loss-making venture for life insurers as the prudential regulator undertakes a comprehensive review of its sustainability, pricing and the actual benefits delivered to policyholders. Otherwise known ...

Equal weight portfolios outperform: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Portfolios that assign equal weighting to individual stocks outperform portfolios with market cap-weighted allocations, according to VanEck. In a recently published research paper, VanEck gives a mathematical analysis of this, based on its equally-weighted ...

IOOF boosts adviser compliance support

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
IOOF's financial advice licensee support service has partnered with Integrity Compliance to help financial advisers manage AFSL requirements. IOOF Alliances aims to help its network of self-licensed advice businesses manage governance, risk and compliance ...

Global wealth manager appoints new CEO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
The US$246 billion wealth management arm of one of the world's largest global investment banks has a new chief executive. Catherine Keating has been appointed chief executive of BNY Mellon Wealth Management. Beginning the role in July, Keating has also ...

Senior insto sales manager at Schroders retires

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
Schroders' senior institutional sales manager is retiring from the industry after more than a decade with the firm. Mark Bourgeois joined Schroders in 2007. Before that, he was vice president of institutional sales and investment services at Merrill ...

Capgemini appoints new Australian head

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... bachelor of business administration from a German university. He has also completed an executive leadership program with the MIT Sloan School of Management. "With over 2000 employees working with our clients in the top 50 ASX listed companies and major ...

Industry fund awards currency mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
A $55 billion profit-for-members fund has awarded a $350 million mandate to a global currency manager. Sunsuper awarded the active currency mandate to Record Currency Management, which the fund hopes will generate risk-adjusted returns using the manager's ...