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Breach reporting regime a distraction: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
A survey of compliance professionals has found 67% believe ASIC's breach reporting rules distract from other issues and the greatest proportion of reports filed relate to financial advice failures. A report from CoreData, Lawcadia and Gadens looks ...

abrdn hires from State Street

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
Raf Choudhury has been appointed to abrdn's newly created position of investment director to strengthen its multi-asset team. Choudhury joins abrdn from State Street Global Advisors where he held a range of portfolio manager roles over a 17-year ...

The transforming role of the trustee

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
At the ASFA Conference, HESTA chair Nicola Roxon shared her strong conviction about the role representative trustees have at industry funds. "I think you get incredible insight from these people who are very close to our 400,000 members," she said. ...

Investor confidence drops in April: State Street

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
State Street's investor confidence index has decreased to 92.9, down 6.6 points from March's revised reading of 99.5. The index, which was developed in partnership with FDO Partners, measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing ...

Super funds back Say on Climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
New analysis from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) shows seven superannuation funds and many of the world's largest investment firms backed most 'Say on Climate' votes in 2021. There were 19 'Say on Climate' ...

'We're living in the world China is making': Conference

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
Appearing at the 2022 ASFA Conference this morning, ABC News journalist Stan Grant has echoed the sentiment that China has arrived as a global superpower and probed Australia's tense but necessitous relationship with its largest trading partner. ...

US stocks crumble after Jerome Powell's hawkish comments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... Powell said: "It is appropriate, in my view, to be moving a little more quickly." He added: "I would say that 50 basis point [rate rise] will be on the table for the May meeting."­ Inflation in the US is at a 40-year high, though inflationary pressures ...

Gordon Brothers receives financing from CPP Investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
Gordon Brothers has had a US $300 million cash injection from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). The new financing brings the capital base for Gordon Brothers to more than $1 billion. The advisory, restructuring and investments ...

APRA 'digging into' super fund contributions to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022
After questioning from Senator Andrew Bragg at Senate estimates, prudential regulator APRA shared it has done some preliminary investigations about payments to unions. Bragg has claimed that superannuation which should be for workers has turned into ...

Former ANZ Australia head in new role

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
Fred Ohlsson has joined wealth management firm Amplifi Group as managing director. Ohlsson announced in December 2018 that he was taking a career break, stepping down from the role of group executive for Australia at ANZ. He left ANZ in 2019 and in ...