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Schroders adds to private debt team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... 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 director of the federal government's Northern Australian Infrastructure ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... 11 million residents - in lockdown with residents confined to their houses and transport in and out of the city shut on January 23 last year. So much so, that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) first World Economic Outlook (WEO) report (released ...

FASEA urges advisers to maximise exam sittings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP), FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield confirmed advisers who sit the exam in January or March can have up to three opportunities to pass the exam before the end of the transition period. "The January exam runs ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... reimposing restrictions to limit infections would continue to expand. More so, after Joe Biden becomes the 46th POTUS on January 20. Biden's already announced that he will ask Americans to commit 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts ...

David Atkin joins ME Bank board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... 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 former chief operating officer and head of group services John Arthur. Atkin and Arthur join ME Bank's ...

ASIC takes fintech to court

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... platform provider, faced the Federal Court on 23 December 2020 for allegedly marketing misleading information between January 2015 and July 2018. In the brochure, How buying established residential property can super charge your superannuation?, which ...

Hostplus axes manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... funds under management. Balanced Equity Management has been one of Hostplus' core Australian equities managers since January 2003. But, in a notice to members, the $50 billion industry fund advised that following a recent strategic review of its ...

FASEA exam results for November 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... 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 52% of the more ...

Charles Schwab fails consumers, cops fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... after discovering the breaches. "There was no actual loss of client assets and CSUK stopped holding client assets from 1 January 2020." FCA executive director of enforcement and market oversight Mark Steward said: "As we saw with Lehman Brothers and ...

Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... management, financial planning and superannuation in the New Year. Our offices will take a short break and re-open on Monday, 4 January 2021. We take this opportunity to wish you a safe and joyous holiday season!