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CFS appoints new general manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
Colonial First State has appointed a new general manager to lead its digital and design team. Natalie Gheller joins the $154 billion superannuation and wealth giant from Telstra where she has spent the last nine years in various senior leadership roles ...

Economics Committee to examine rainy day funds

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
The House Economics Committee is going to examine the rainy day funds created by superannuation funds following recent amendments made to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993. The hearing, scheduled for February 10, is part of the committee's ...

Magellan shuns turnaround companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
Magellan Financial Group chair Hamish Douglass continues to take a contrarian stance by shunning "turnaround companies", claiming they make it difficult for fund managers to be profitable. A company in the process of turning around its operations are ...

Munro launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
Munro Partners and GSFM have launched the Munro Concentrated Global Growth Fund on the ASX, under ticker code MCGG. MCCG.ASX has a management fee of 0.70% per annum of the net asset value of the fund. It aims to maximise long term capital appreciation ...

Consumer advocates criticise advice review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
The Consumer Action Law Centre has concerns that the Quality of Advice Review draft terms of references forget Commissioner Hayne's findings on conflicted remuneration. In the centre's submission on the review's draft terms of references, it argued ...

Inquiry criticises gaps in CSLR

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
The proposed Compensation Scheme of Last Resort regime has several flaws that will overlook the protection of certain investors, a parliamentary inquiry heard. In discussing the Standing Committee on Economics Financial Services Compensation Scheme ...

Mercer nabs Lonsec consultant

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
Mercer has hired David Wilson to support the asset consultant's growing consulting and investment solutions business. Wilson joins from Lonsec where he spent more than six years as an investment consultant. Before that, he was a research services ...

Mayfair 101 files new appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
Mayfair 101 has confirmed it will appeal the 2021 Federal Court decision that found its advertising misled and deceived investors. The notice of appeal was filed on the same day Mayfair was fined $30 million for the misconduct. Mayfair's appeal claims ...

Australians plough record cash into managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Australian investors put almost three times as much cash into managed equity funds in 2021 as they did in 2020, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone. Fund inflows rose to $35.7 billion across all assets in 2021, up from $13.6 billion ...

Tight labour market not yet producing wage growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Wages growth remains subdued ahead of this week's quarterly Consumer Price Index release, despite a tight labour market. HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham expects headline CPI inflation to increase to 3.1% year on year in Q4 2021. He observes that both ...