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Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... $5.7 million of income and bonuses. He has a non-parole period of four years while Agius will be eligible for parole in March 2021. In 2006, the Australian Taxation Office and Australian Federal Police began investigating large-scale money laundering ...

Zurich names executive lineup for new business

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... chief distribution officer Kristine Brooks will lead the distribution and marketing teams across the expanded business. In March, Zurich announced it would retain OnePath's brand and identity. To this end, it today announced that the two brands' head ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... wages - annual growth in UK average weekly earnings (excluding bonuses) slowed to 2.7% in May from 2.8% in April and 2.9% in March - the BOE is confident that, "the tightening labour market was expected to continue to feed through into faster growth ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... already lacklustre consumer spending - retail sales growth slowed to 2.5% in the year to May from 2.7% in April and 3.1% in March - that leads to lower inflation as businesses offer discounts to maintain revenues, that leads to low wage growth (by virtue ...

Sunsuper appoints former AustralianSuper executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... with the $2.5 billion AustSafe Super early next year, creating a $58 billion super fund with 1.4 million members. Also in March, Sunsuper finalised its merger with Melbourne-based Kinetic Super. Williams was appointed after a national recruitment search ...

Crypto exchange enters superannuation market

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... said, adding it works with other central banks as well as interacts with big and small entities active in cryptocurrency. In March, it was reported complex cryptocurrency assets are driving financial advisers to reconsider the advice process, particularly ...

Frontier names head of real assets arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... Johnstone-Kaiser was the head of real estate for Asia Pacific at Mercer for more than four years based in Sydney. She left in March 2014 and went into independent consulting before joining Savills Investment Management. Chief executive Andrew Polson ...

Raiz close to super product launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... charging some of the lowest fees in the market for balances of $50,000. After announcing plans for its super product in March, Raiz Invest Super plans to officially launch on 16 July 2018. It charges about $425 per annum on balances of $50,000, placing ...

Queensland industry funds merge

HARRISON WORLEY AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... in local and community-based programs." Sunsuper's earlier merger with Melbourne-based Kinetic Super was finalised in March of this year, and Fraser said this additional partnership represents a further opportunity to set the gold standard for the ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... 18%. The diffusion index - rise minus fall -- of input prices in manufacturing rose to 30 in the June quarter from 26 in March. This should be a positive for the BOJ's efforts at lifting domestic inflation but with the diffusion index for output ...