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Industry fund chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
The long-running chief executive of a $9.4 billion industry superannuation fund is stepping down. Frank Pegan is exiting his role as chief executive at Catholic Super after 17 years at the helm. Chief risk officer David O'Sullivan acts as chief ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
Financial markets expect the US Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting this week (7-8 November) to be a ho-hum event. In fact, the CME FedWatch Tool puts the probability of the Fed keeping the fed funds rate at 2-2.25% at 92.8% - almost a sure "no change" ...

Macquarie reshuffles asset management lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... MIRA Real Estate, the 1H19 results said. Macquarie's group head of corporate and asset finance (CAF) principal finance, Ben Brazil, is stepping down from the role and the executive committee. He moving in as chair of CAF Principal Finance until mid-2019. ...

FPA and AFA aim to administer adviser standards

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
The Financial Planning Association of Australia and the Association of Financial Advisers are putting cases forward to manage adviser compliance schemes resulting from the industry's new education and ethics standards. The FPA told its member base ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
When the Bank of England's (BOE) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you ...

Former adviser jailed, ASIC posts FY18 stats

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
A former Professional Investment Services financial adviser has been jailed for dishonesty following an ASIC investigation. The former PIS financial adviser and representative Satvir Singh Birk was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Will the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term ...

FSC appoints UBS, Mercer heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... and UBS Asset Management's Australian heads to its board to fill two director vacancies. Mercer Australia managing director Ben Walsh and UBS Asset Management Australia chief executive Bryce Doherty were elected at the annual general meeting on October ...

Treasury delays CIPR timetable

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert announced two major updates to the proposed Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement (CIPRs) initiative, one of which is giving superannuation trustees more time to get retirement income strategies in order. Robert ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
A Melbourne boutique has won a $500 million mandate from AustralianSuper, the super fund confirmed. Jamieson Coote Bonds was appointed to manage a fixed income mandate for the super fund at the end of June, Rainmaker research shows. JCB's mandate ...