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Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... coalition government led by Giuseppe Conte. In Spain, the prospect of early elections - on calls for votes of no-confidence in Prime Minister Rajoy's government amidst graft on corruption - have taken Spain's IBEX index down 7.4% from the 2018 ...

Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... ruled to have engaged in unconscionable conduct, it traded with the dominant purpose of influencing the yields of traded Prime Bank Bills and the BBSW was set in a way that was favourable to its rate set exposure. A future hearing will decide the penalty ...

Agriculture investment under parliament microscope

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... has long been a bugbear of the Coalition, with Barnaby Joyce previously making several comments during his time as Deputy Prime Minister encouraging super funds to invest. In 2015, corporate advisory firm BDO and The University of Queensland released ...

AustralianSuper recruiting new property lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... horizons." The fund announced in March it would be expanding its property mandate into the European market, investing in prime and super prime office and retail property opportunities. Former Frontier Advisors chief executive Damian Moloney was appointed ...

BBSW methodology restores trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... transactions at traded prices," the statement said. Previously the BBSW was calculated from the best executable bids and offers for Prime Bank securities. A major concern in recent years has been the low trading volumes during the rate-set window, the ...

More adviser participation needed to shape ethics code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... manager Rob Lavery said the draft code contains several, less prescriptive measures the industry will also have to abide by. A prime example is a condition to act in accordance with the spirit of all laws and regulations, Lavery said. Labelling it a ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
What better to focus the minds of the Australian Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer than a general election coming to a theatre near us - no later than May next year. This time is not different. The government of the day is going out here, there and ...

ANZ culls sales incentives for planners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... end of the year. Earlier last month, ANZ footed a $50 million bill in compensating its fee-for-no-service bungle for its Prime Access Clients, also copping an enforceable undertaking from ASIC. At the time, ASIC said the compensation program was "nearing ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires AGL assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... Challenger under its Fidante Partners multi-boutique funds management platform. It is also the investment consultant to Prime Super. In September 2017, Whitehelm acquired a petroleum tank storage terminal in the Netherlands on behalf of several pension ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... when you say politically it would have been better for us if we had done it years ago." These are the words from Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull doing a "mea culpa" for waiting two years before establishing the Royal Commission investigating ...