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Australia lax in fighting financial crime

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... anti-money laundering, bribery, sanctions, Waldren said, urging the regulators to take a more holistic approach. Johnson Winter and Slattery partner Robert Wyld agreed and said the "silo mentality" is reflected in regulation and enforcement, whereby ...

RF Capital appoints new retail distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
RF Capital welcomed the former head of distribution for Australian Unity to its ranks at the beginning of the year. Damen Purcell, who left Australian Unity in December 2016, is the new head of retail distribution at RF Capital, the asset management ...

ASFA slams Grattan as 'out of touch'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... expenses; running a modest car; basic home maintenance; and, being able to run air conditioning in summer and heating in winter." ASFA currently rates 'comfortable' retirement standard as an annual expenditure of $43,372 for a single and $59,619 for ...

RF Capital appoints senior Perpetual exec

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
RF Capital has appointed a global head of client, product and marketing. Prior to his new role, Dean Winterton was general manager distribution at Perpetual Investments - a position recently taken over by Matt Thompson, who originally joined Perpetual ...

Perpetual appoints distribution GM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
Perpetual Investments has appointed a new general manager of distribution. Matt Thompson was previously Perpetual Investments' head of wholesale business, having joined Perpetual in 2012. Prior to that, he was head of national accounts and research ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... summer of discontent - precipitous drop in its stock market and devaluation of the yuan - during this Northern Hemisphere winter that sent investors packing and out of risk trades. The CSI 300 index was 9.9% lower by the end of the first trading week ...

Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Future Generation Global Investment Company (FGG) has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) having raised $302.1 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The listed investment company (LIC) is a fund of funds that gives investors access ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... historic docklands site; a Centre for Advanced Knowledge and Engineering in Norfolk; a waterfront luxury housing, retail and winter sports facility in Cardiff; an all-weather tourist resort in the heart of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
'Twas a winter of discontent for our Northern Hemisphere brethrens and us, Australians all, could experience a similar winter of our own. It barely made the headlines when the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its provisional ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... announcing first-quarter results that missed market expectations. The company blamed the West Coast port slowdown and severe winter weather early in the quarter for sales that came in lower than it had forecast. Other retailers dropped, including Dow ...