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Young Aussies backing world's biggest brands

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Young Australians are increasingly investing in the hot international stocks they know and love, latest nabtrade data shows. Latest figures from nabtrade show young traders entered the market in record numbers in 2018, with the number of Gen Z investors ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services names APAC lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
BNP Paribas appointed a new Asia Pacific lead for BNP Paribas Securities Services. Mostapha Tahiri will succeed Philippe Benoit as the head of the Asia Pacific business effective February 1. Tahiri will report to Jose Placido, global head of client ...

Kelly O'Dwyer to leave parliament

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Former financial services minister Kelly O'Dwyer will retire before the next election. In an announcement on Saturday, Member for Higgins Kelly O'Dwyer said she would not recontest the next federal election, citing personal reasons. "After much agonising ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
A Melbourne bond manager won a $180 million mandate from UniSuper as the super fund increased its allocation to fixed income. UniSuper appointed Jamieson Coote Bonds to manage about $180 million in Australian government bonds in November. The mandate ...

Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Larry Fink has told chief executives they must embrace a greater responsibility to help employees navigate retirement, highlighting it as a key challenge to the world's future prosperity. In his annual letter to the chief executives of companies backed ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Be afraid, be very afraid! With headlines like these, not only those who have their fingers in the Australian property pie should be scared, us, Australians all, should be. "Australia's housing price drop expected to be the worst in the world" - ...

Investors rage coup against Aurora

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Investors in the troubled Aurora Absolute Return Fund have voted to boot Aurora Funds Management as the responsible entity. However, Aurora contests the validity of this vote. The challenger is Primary Securities, backed by some investors of the fund ...

MLC expands customer experience efforts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
MLC Life Insurance appointed its first chief customer experience officer. Former KPMG partner Louise Portelli has been appointed to lead the life firm's customer experience efforts, and will link with MLC in March. Reporting to chief executive David ...

Labor reforms to increase welfare dependency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Labor's proposed franking credit reforms will substantially impact the income of more than one million Australians, forcing them to seek welfare. In an address yesterday, Alliance for a Fairer Retirement System chair Deborah Ralston said the vast majority ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Brexit uncertainty remains in the headlines ( dis-United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May survived the vote of no confidence immediately called after the crushing defeat of her proposed Brexit deal in the House of Commons); so is the US government ...