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First Super adds to board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
First Super has announced a new director and associate director commencing their terms on 1 January 2021. Anthony Pavey will join the board as a member representative director. Pavey has worked for Australian paper since 2002 and is currently the on-site ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... consumer confidence were back. 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 ...

Trilogy appoints head of property, lending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
Trilogy Funds Management has appointed a head of lending and property assets following the retirement of David Hogan last month. Clinton Arentz has been named head of lending and property assets, which encompasses his current role leading Trilogy's ...

Public sector super satisfaction rises

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
Public sector superannuation fund members have come out as the most satisfied across all sectors, according to new research. Roy Morgan's latest Superannuation Satisfaction Report revealed member satisfaction in public sector funds reached a high ...

Vanguard finds dirty assets in ESG fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
Vanguard has changed the descriptions of an ethically conscious bond fund, after a review turned up holdings that investors were told were excluded. Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index invests in about 4500 fixed income instruments ...

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 ...