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AustralianSuper consortium ups bid for Navitas

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... Consortium, which includes AustralianSuper, has finally unlocked the doors to Navitas after it upped its previously rebuffed bid to acquire the company. The Navitas board yesterday granted exclusive due diligence to the consortium, after it offered to ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... ETFs were in some part driven by an increasing interest from financial advisers, who have been turning to the instrument in a bid to diversify portfolios for clients. Vanguard added that more institutional investors had opted for ETFs in their portfolio ...

Regulators in Productivity Commission firing line

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... recommendation for APRA: for the Government to immediately initiate an independent capability review of the prudential regulator in bid to examine how efficiently and efficiently it operates to achieve its strategic objectives. Under a recommendation ...

Productivity Commission shakes up default superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission reinforced several recommendations flagged in mid-2018 in a bid to modernise the $2.7 trillion industry, which included shaking up the default sector. The Commission handed down 31 recommendations in its final report in assessing ...

CBA and Alipay to bring in Chinese shoppers

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
Commonwealth Bank has started accepting Alipay on its EFTPOS devices in a bid to attract Chinese shoppers who last year spent $10.9 billion in Australia. This makes CBA the first of the big four banks to accept Alipay in Australia, ahead of NAB which ...

Labor pledges tougher unpaid super penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... superannuation with tougher penalties if it comes to power. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen proposed new measures over the weekend in a bid to curb the "enormous issue" of unpaid super. Employers that fail to tell the ATO about unpaid superannuation entitlements ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed ...

IFM Investors chair lays out priorities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... Southern Cross Station, matching the Victorian and federal government's investment. However, nothing as big as the Westconnex bid is on the horizon, Combet said. He said IFM Investors will look to work with government to invest in projects especially ...

WAM names prospective Blue Sky LIC team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... newly-constituted board of BAF is considering the update as it finalises the manager arrangements for the LIC. Wilson made a bid to take control of the LIC on October 24, a week after BAF and Blue Sky announced they would split and a new Pinnacle boutique ...

MLC Life restructures team, ramps up transformation ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... changes to its innovation and transformation teams with three senior hires and a restructure of its executive lineup. In a bid to ramp up its technology transformation, the life insurer made three new appointments: chief information officer, general ...