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Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Brexit is over. But even before the UK and the EU shook hands on the post-Brexit trade and cooperation pact on 24 December 2020 and before the ink on the signatures of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles ...

AMP adviser numbers shrivel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
The number of financial advisers licensed by AMP dropped dramatically in 2020, with the institution no longer the largest AFSL in the country by number of advisers. The largest AFSL is now the SMSF Adviser Network which had 839 advisers as at 31 December ...

Schroders adds to private debt team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
Schroders has announced the appointment of a new portfolio manager to its Australian private debt team. Tim Hallam will join head of private debt Australia Nicole Kidd in the newly created role from 13 January 2021. Most recently Hallam was the executive ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." - Jaws About this time last year, the world was alerted - but only mildly alarmed - at yet another SARS-like disease spreading in Wuhan, China (the first confirmed case reported on December ...

FASEA urges advisers to maximise exam sittings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
With the window to complete the FASEA exam narrowing, financial advisers are being urged to maximise the number of attempts they make. In correspondence with the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP), FASEA chief executive ...

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 ...