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Commonwealth Super awards mandate for new strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, the $50 billion fund for government employees, has launched a new partnership with a sustainable asset manager. CSC and Osmosis Investment Management have partnered to launch a Resource Efficient Core Equity ...

QMV hires technology lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
Wealth management consulting and technology firm QMV has made an appointment to the new role of general manager, technology. Jonathan Clamp will step into the newly created role of general manager, technology. Based in Melbourne, Clamp will report to ...

Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
"They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know I know that it's true..." - Neil Sedaka It's been three-and-a-half years since the UK decided and then filed for divorce from the European Union (EU) and 11 months into the transition period ...

Financial services' biggest tax bills revealed

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
How much did Challenger, Perpetual, UBS and J.P. Morgan pay in taxes? The Australian Taxation Office has released the latest numbers. The ATO's latest Corporate Tax Transparency report found AMP Limited as the financial institution outside the big ...

GE, Cheesecake Factory pursued for disclosure violations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has kicked off the festive season by cracking down on misleading disclosures about cashflow and profitability. On December 4, the SEC announced it would be charging the Cheesecake Factory for misleading ...

SMSFs dump $30bn in shares

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
Self-managed superannuation funds have not been spared by the market impact of COVID-19, with members dumping their allocation to listed shares over the past year, new data shows. The Australian Taxation Office quarterly statistical report for September ...

Design, distribution obligations guide released

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
The regulatory guide on product design and distribution obligations for the financial services industry has been released. ASIC's RG 274 Product design and distribution obligations aims to help consumers obtain appropriate financial products by ...

Chief economist update: ECB expands PEPP

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
The European Central Bank (ECB) didn't disappoint financial markets expecting more goodies in their Christmas stockings. While it kept the price of credit unchanged - repo rate at 0%, marginal lending rate at 0.25% and deposit facility rate at -0.5% ...

New AMP Australia chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
AMP has appointed a new chief executive for the AMP Australia business, replacing Alex Wade who exited suddenly. Former Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley will take over from Blair Vernon, who has been acting in the position since Wade's sudden ...

US regulator, states sue Facebook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
Facebook appears unfazed by antitrust lawsuits filed by 46 US states and the Federal Trade Commission seeking to force the social media giant to divest key assets, labelling the actions 'revisionist history'. The FTC and 48 Attorneys General ...