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Spectrum Wealth representatives find new homes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... and financial advice businesses in April. The embattled insurer announced last year that it would likely face a liquidity crisis in 2019 and missed its FY19 interim results deadline. Freedom came under fire during the Royal Commission for selling a life ...

Suncorp pressured on coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... campaigner Pablo Brait said: "Suncorp's shareholders and customers are feeling the financial impacts of the climate crisis, while at the same time their company is willing to support the expansion of the dirty industries fuelling this crisis." Brait ...

Trustee firm adds executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... This is quite different to a traditional low touch, vanilla, institutional approach," he said. Since the Global Financial Crisis, investors are seeking real control of capital rather than simply paying for institutional brand names managing extremely ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... restore equilibrium in the economy. Case in point. The A$ absorbed some of the negative shocks from the Asian currency crisis - followed by the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and Russian debt default in the late 1990s when ...

ISA condemned by union

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
The Electrical Trades Union has condemned Industry Super Australia's recent report on the energy crisis, saying it puts at risk the very people ISA is supposed to represent. The report, Fixing the Energy Crisis, was issued by ISA last week. It makes ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... refunds would act much like the stimulus cheques mailed out by the Rudd government during the depths of the global financial crisis in February 2009." "On that occasion, cheques of $950, worth a combined $8.1 billion, were mailed out over a short period ...

Australians rapidly gaining wealth: Roy Morgan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... and inflation the average Australian is better off. The report covers the period from just before the Global Financial Crisis until 2019 and draws on over half a million face-to-face interviews conducted with Australians. The researchers found per capita ...

UK fund manager appoints local lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... peak body, Industry Super Australia said it was willing to partner with government to help solve Australia's energy crisis, while the $50 billion super fund Rest took full ownership of the largest wind farm in Western Australia

Industry funds could solve energy crisis: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
Industry superannuation funds believe they hold the key to unlocking Australia's energy crisis. Peak industry superannuation body Industry Super Australia today released a new discussion paper calling for industry funds to take a leading hand in ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... it does best - restore equilibrium in the domestic economy. The A$ absorbed some of the negative shocks from the Asian crisis when it dropped from more than US$0.80 to below US$0.60. It deflected the fallout from the 2001 US recession and September 11 ...