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Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
Pandemic? What pandemic? The S&P500 index the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 2020 at record highs despite the US topping the list of countries with most total cases of coronavirus infections (21.3 million or roughly 25% of the world's total) ...

David Atkin joins ME Bank board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
Former Cbus Super chief executive David Atkin, who r ecently joined AMP Capital, has just added a board position at ME Bank. David Atkin joined the industry-fund-owned bank's board as a non-executive director on January 1, alongside Westpac's ...

ASIC takes fintech to court

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
The corporate regulator has initiated action against a fintech for allegedly misleading customers about the benefits of investing in residential property in self-managed superannuation funds. Squirrel Superannuation Services, an SMSF platform provider ...

Hostplus axes manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
Hostplus has terminated an Australian equities mandate with a Franklin Templeton subsidiary. Balanced Equity Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia with approximately $8 billion in funds under management. ...

FASEA exam results for November 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
FASEA has released exam results from the ninth Financial Advisers Exam held in November 2020, all financial advisers in Australia have until January 2022 to complete the exam. Just 11,241 advisers have passed the FASEA exams held to date - representing ...

Charles Schwab fails consumers, cops fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
Charles Schwab UK has been fined $15.6 million for failing to protect consumers and lying to the regulator. CSUK has to cough up GBP8.96 million for a number for safeguard and compliance failures, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has found, noting ...

Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
The Financial Standard team would like to thank you for your support and loyal readership during what has been a challenging year. We will continue to bring you the most important stories and developments in wealth management, financial planning and ...

HUB24 finds new role for Paragem lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
The current managing director of Paragem will be placed into a new role by HUB24 once the sale of the business is complete. Nathan Jacobsen will take on the new role of managing director of Easton Investments commencing at the completion of the sale ...

First Super adds to board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
The chief executive of an industry association will First Super's board, replacing former director and co-chair Lisa Marty. Dean Brakell will join First Super's board, commencing 1 January 2021. Brakell is chief executive of the Australian Cabinet & ...

Almost 3000 advisers gone in 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
A total of 2802 financial advisers have departed the industry in 2020, with just 60 new advisers joining, according to Rainmaker analysis of the Financial Adviser Register. AMP Financial Planning lost the most advisers of any AFSL this year, with 323 ...