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Clime Capital settles class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... shareholders it was pleased the in-principle settlement has been reached with UGL, a firm that provides engineering, construction, maintenance and asset management services to the rail, resources and infrastructure sectors. Clime alleged between 16 April ...

FASEA approves more coursework

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... Financial advisers who have completed coursework for the CIMA designation in or after 2001 (offered by the Portfolio Construction Forum) have been awarded one credit recognition for prior learning (RPL) to attain professional designation. Those who have ...

Inaugural FASEA exam results in

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... regulatory and legal obligations; applied ethical and professional reasoning and communication; and financial advice construction. Under new financial adviser requirements within the Corporations Act 2001, advisers must pass an exam approved by the standards-setting ...

Super fund invests in disability housing

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... homes in five years and is in discussions with other potential investors. The DPN Casa Capace pilot, currently under construction in south-west Sydney's Oran Park, is expected to be completed in November. Brightlight chief operating officer Matthew ...

Sydney portfolio manager on best female fundies list

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... professionals who are most coveted by recruited for a chief investment officer role. AustralianSuper head of portfolio construction Alistair Barker, secured the number-15 spot on Institutional Investor's Most Wanted Allocators list.

BT Panorama boosts functionality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... enhancements include: record of advice integration with Xplan, new adviser portfolio tools to enable account model construction and rebalancing and improvements to household reporting through the related groups capability. Corporate action participation ...

APRA sticks to rigid member outcomes deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... review (BPR) requirements, it will seek RSE's proposed design and implementation timing. Information on cohort construction, benchmarking, data sources and alignment with the business planning process will be of particular interest. Trustees must ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... latest surveys point to no growth in UK output." The BOE chief's statement is supported by the IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Total Activity Index dropping to a decade-low reading of 43.1 in June from 48.6 in the previous month. According to Markit ...

JANA hires operations lead, boosts workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... (infrastructure), Lin Ngin (Australasian equities), Daniel Kisnorbo (global equities) and Neil Maines (portfolio construction and retirement strategies). Lamborn commented that JANA is a majority staff-owned business and as such, staff experience a greater ...

Super smashes best-performing salaries list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... to have thousands of documents manually reviewed - but today much of that labour has been handed over to machines. Construction workers in the fields of planning and scheduling have also seen their pay packet shrink by 18% to $100,052 per annum on average. ...