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Actuaries Institute names new president

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
The Actuaries Institute has named a partner at KPMG as its new president. Jefferson Gibbs takes over from Hoa Bui, who was appointed to the post in January 2020. Gibbs is a partner at KPMG specialising in general insurance. He joined the firm in October ...

JANA awarded mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
The asset consultant has won a mandate to provide investment advisory services to a Queensland-based health insurer. TUH Health Fund selected JANA after a three-way tender process in January 2021 and follows growth in JANA's investment advisory offering ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street can't have its cake and eat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
Wall Street wants to have its cake and eat it too. It wants both a return to pre-pandemic normal - with all the growth and activity and employment and profitability that came with it - while at the same time wishing, hopin' and prayin' for Biden's ...

ASIC zeroes in on bad SMSF advice, conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
The corporate regulator continues to hunt down perpetrators that give bad advice to self-managed super funds, sounding a warning that it is flexing its new powers in superannuation. ASIC commissioner Danielle Press told the recent SMSF Association's ...

PIMCO eyes ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
The fixed income giant is getting ready to list its fixed income funds as active ETFs in Australia. PIMCO, which managed over $52 billion in Australian assets at September end, has so far stayed away from ETFs. It did list nine of its strategies in ...

Aussie dividends slump 40%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
Three-in-five Australian publicly listed companies have either cut or withheld their dividends during 2020 as a result of COVID-19, a global dividend index shows. Between April and December 2020, Aussie firms either cut or cancelled dividend payments ...

Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
No more tears, fears... and hopefully snap lockdowns. Today, 22 February 2021, will go down in Australian history as VAC (vaccine against covid-19) Day (although Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and 84-year-old ...

Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... three months' time. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) reported that 29,100 workers found employment in January - in line with market expectations. Though the monthly addition in jobs has slowed -- 180K in October, 90K in November and ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
The US economy is not out of the woods yet and therefore, worrywarts need not be concerned over rising inflation - that would prompt the Fed taper policy accommodation. "Participants observed that the economy was far from achieving the committee's ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... lifts business confidence. The NAB business confidence index jumped by five percentage points to a reading of +10 in January - above its long-run average of +6 and despite lower than the +13 recorded in November last year, remains the highest in three ...