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Fintech to take on super with new hire

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Stake has announced its plans to take on the super industry to give younger investors a simple, low cost way to have their own self-managed super fund (SMSF), by announcing a new executive hire. Stake announced the appointment of Kris Kitto as head ...

Climate change reporting is cheap talk: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
New research suggests that many companies engage in "cheap talk" and are ultimately greenwashing as a result of reporting poor quality emissions data. The University of Augsberg research paper, co-authored by Research Affiliates' Vitali Kalesnik ...

Australians drain $35bn from super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Around $35 billion has been removed from Australians retirement savings as the governments' early release of super (ERS) scheme edges towards its close. Having opened in April this year in response to the immediate effects of the COVID-19 lockdown ...

CountPlus to continue acquisition spree

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
The ASX-listed advice and accounting group has confirmed it will continue to carry out its extensive growth strategy with further "tuck-in" acquisitions. Speaking at the company's annual general meeting, CountPlus chair Ray Kellerman said the "considerable ...

Cashwerkz director departs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Cashwerkz has announced the retirement of a long-serving non-executive director. Nathan Leman had been on the board since 2010 and took responsibility for the design and implementation of the corporate infrastructure including IT projects. Throughout ...

ASX market outage lasts all day

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
The ASX equity market paused trading this morning, and will not open until tomorrow morning. The market will not open again until 10am tomorrow as the ASX works to fix the issue. Today was the go-live for the refreshed ASX Trade system, which is the ...

Chief economist update: Japan's third wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
More infections equals more monetary policy easing and more fiscal spending. Like the Fed and the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) also kept monetary policy unchanged - target rate at -0.1% and target for the 10-year Japanese government ...

Mike Baird to chair government fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Former Premier of New South Wales and National Australia Bank chief customer officer Mike Baird had landed a new role as chair of the Australian Business Growth Fund. The $540 million fund provides patient equity funding to growing small and medium ...

Link hires from QSuper, NAB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
QSuper's head of group strategy has joined Link Group as a general manager, as the administrator also adds a portfolio manager for super and retirement solutions. Link Group has confirmed the appointment of Ross McCormack as general manager for ...

T. Rowe Price recruits analysts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
T. Rowe Price has hired two Sydney-based analysts to strengthen its Australian equities capability and client support. Nick Vidale joins as an investment analyst from Perpetual where he was an equity analyst for over three years. Vidale is responsible ...