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Contango appoints small cap portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
Contango Asset Management (CGA) has appointed the portfolio manager for its small cap strategy. Richard Ivers was previously a senior investment analyst with CGA, having joined in 2016. Before this, he was a portfolio manager at River Capital and a ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
Australian consumers are happier in September than last month. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute (WBC-MI) index of consumer sentiment jumped by 2.5% to a reading of 97.9 this month from 95.5 in August with nearly all the survey's sub-indices recording ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
It's back to business as usual on Wall Street. The sum of all fears - well, nearly all - many investors braced for didn't quite add up. US equities, the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the US dollar, they all fell down last week as investors feared ...

Xenophon team introduce unpaid super Bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
A Bill that's aligning super guarantee payments to the wage cycle, abolishing the monthly $450 threshold, and granting the Fair Work Ombudsman greater power to recoup unpaid super has been introduced in Parliament. Rebekha Sharkie, federal member for ...

First Super makes board appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
A $2.6 billion industry superannuation fund has appointed an employee representative to its board. Joining the First Super board is Scott McDine. The appointment was effective 1 September. McDine replaces outgoing director Dave Kirner as an employee ...

Labor takes aim at executive pay

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
The Federal Opposition has adopted a new party policy to force Commonwealth entities, including investment managers, to publish details of executive remuneration. Formally amending the rules surrounding executive remuneration, Labor will aim to ensure ...

Vanguard appoints Australian active team head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
Vanguard appointed the head of its Australian quantitative equity group (QEG) as part of an expansion to its Melbourne team. Michael Roach will lead the Australian QEG, having previously been a quantitative equities portfolio manager for Vanguard in ...

SMSFA supports quarterly reporting proposal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
The Australian Tax Office's decision to offer a quarterly option as part of a position paper on event-based reporting for the transfer balance cap has been endorsed by the SMSF Association. SMSF Association (SMSFA) chief executive John Maroney says ...

Investors short on tax-effective structures: Centuria Life

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
Changes to superannuation and news Bill Shorten has discretionary family trusts in his sights is making investors worried about their investment future. Centuria Life general manager Neil Rogan says if family trusts are taxed at 30%, as per Bill Shorten's ...

Wage freeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'Wage Price Index' report for the June quarter confirmed what we, Australians all, already know...wages growth remains sluggish. Even market consensus got it on point. Growth in total wages stood still at a ...