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ASIC faces cybersecurity attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
Corporate watchdog ASIC was hit with a cybersecurity breach on January 15 that has potentially exposed personal information. ASIC announced on January 25 that the incident involved unauthorised access to a server that contained documents associated ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... with guidance. Powell in line with recent comments from officials including Governor Brainard, who said yesterday [19 January] the economy is far from hitting its dual mandate goals, while Vice Chair Clairda [sic] also said yesterday Fed won't start ...

Super fund ousts ethical manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... Fund. The option was invested in the AMP Capital Ethical Leaders Balanced Fund but was transferred during the week of January 11. "Our SR Balanced option was invested in AMP Capital's Ethical Leaders Balanced Fund, however, due to concerns with investment ...

Ord Minnett adds to team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... appointments, including a Deutsche Bank director to its institutional equities sales team. Ashley Cox joined the firm on January 18 in institutional equities sales. In his most recent role, he was a director at Deutsche Bank in Sydney. Michael Gerges ...

AFCA forced into rule change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... out in the Corporations Act and the National Consumer Credit Protection Act. The new rules will come into effect from 13 January 2021, but complaints received before that date are still being assessed under the old rules. AFCA said it is reviewing a ...

Volatility ahead for Magellan shareholders: Morgan Stanley

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... MFG more diverse, a strategy that MQG has successfully used," Morgan Stanley analysts led by Andrei Stadnik said in a January 20 note. "But we note MQG started in lower-multiple investment banking and moved into higher-multiple alternative asset management. ...

Ophir readies new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
The equities boutique will launch a new mid-cap focused equities fund, as its last fund readies for a hard close at January end. The Ophir Global High Conviction Fund will be an extension strategy to the $773 million Global Opportunities Fund, with ...

Jobs return to pre-pandemic levels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... "This also aligns with what we see in Labour Force statistics each year, particularly in hours worked through December and January." Nationally, payroll jobs fell 5.5% across the fortnight to 2 January 2021 and were 6.1% below mid-March 2020. This is ...

APRA delays insurance in super guidance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... to the draft guidance, one of which is a revised date of commencement, which has been pushed back from 1 July 2021 to 1 January 2022. Additionally, the new document separates the independent certification requirements into two paragraphs; one for connected ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... stem the spread of the virus, could again slow economic activity, as it did in the first quarter of last year. As at 13 January 2021, China's National Health Commission (NHC) reported a total of 115 new confirmed cases, up from 55 cases in the previous ...