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Digital advice as commonplace as internet banking

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Once big institutions come around to the benefits of digital member engagement, digital advice services will become as reliable and ubiquitous as internet banking is now, according to Decimal founder and executive director, strategy and innovation Jan ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... ridiculed, dismissed... It's the central banks of the world that wished for, indirectly perhaps, Trump. Note that central bank head honchos have been asking for "fiscal support" in recent times. Speaking before the Economic Club of New York last 29 March ...

Super is "next on the menu" for disruption: new ASFA CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
The superannuation industry is at high risk of being disrupted by the fintech sector, new Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy has warned. Speaking at the 2016 ASFA Conference, Fahy noted the "challenges" inherent ...

New head of economics at ANZ

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... David Plank will join ANZ in February 2017, reporting to ANZ chief economist Richard Yetsenga. Plank joins ANZ from Deutsche Bank, where he was head of fixed income and credit research Asia Pacific and head of macro research and strategy Australia and ...

Challis Capital wins property mandate

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Corporate adviser and lender Challis Capital Partners has won its largest investment mandate since it was established two years ago. A private consortium of Asian investors has awarded the real estate division of Challis Capital Partners a $100 million ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... immediate impact will be visible in the emerging markets. Indeed we have already seen the Peso fall and the Mexican central bank call an emergency meeting. The last time the Mexican peso experienced such a fall the Mexican central bank intervened and ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Donald Trump - the "misogynist", the "sexual predator", the "racist", the "lying cheat", the "clown", the "narcissist", "the most hated man in America" is now President-elect of America. No one, or so it seems, like him. Not the media - mainstream and ...

CBA director retires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
A non-executive director at the Commonwealth Bank has retired. Sir John Anderson has served on the board since March 2007, and has also been a member of the risk committee, the board performance and renewal committee, and the audit committee. CBA chairman ...

CommInsure update champions progress

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... declined retail advice and group life insurance claims. Citing concerns raised by media coverage in early 2016, the Commonwealth Bank highlighted that CommInsure has taken further steps to assure customers of its operations, including upgrading its product ...

Government bond strategy added to HUB24

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... credit or equity like exposures," JCB co-founder Angus Coote said. "Another common problem we have identified is heightened bank related exposures within the 'defensive' bucket of portfolios. These include corporate credit, bank hybrids, negatively geared ...