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Chief economist update: What a difference an Australian year makes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
"For all those times you stood by me... You're the one who held me up Never let me fall You're the one who saw me through it all." -Celine Dion What a difference a year makes, ey? The year 2020 started out disastrous (literally) for the country ...

PYSP reunites $4.3bn of lost super

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
The Protecting Your Super Package legislation which asked super funds to hand over inactive accounts to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has returned $4.3 billion to members in about 17 months. Between 1 November 2019 and 28 February 2021, nearly ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
GDP growth of over 6% for 2021. Chinese premier Li Kequiang announced this target growth rate at the opening of the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5. Many a time, China's annual economic growth ...

Colonial First State names executive chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
Colonial First State has elected the former chair of MLC Wealth as executive chair of the company that will be established on completion of its sale to KKR. Former MLC Wealth and current Generation Development Group chair Rob Coombe has been named as ...

Frontier hires from Cbus

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
Frontier has hired a senior portfolio manager from Cbus to lead its alternatives and derivatives team. Scott Pappas was most recently at Cbus as a senior portfolio manager in absolute return strategies. Prior to this, he worked as a part of Vanguard's ...

Ardea launches fund to European investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
Ardea Investment Management has launched a UCITS-compliant version of its Ardea Real Outcome Fund for European investors, leveraging the services of Fidante Partners. The Ardea Global Alpha Fund invests in government bonds and related derivatives and ...

Rest expands member engagement team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
Rest has appointed two senior leads to drive digital engagement and member insights respectively. Catherine Farrugia and Steven Ahn have joined the member engagement team. Farrugia joined in February as the new general manager of digital, responsible ...

T. Rowe Price hires ETF consultant

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
The global funds management giant, which does not have an ETF business in Australia, has hired the former boss of an ETF issuer as a consultant. Kris Walesby was the chief executive of ETF Securities for nearly five years, before his sudden departure ...

Pandemic boosts scam complaints

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
The onset of COVID-19 led to a sharp increase in the number of scam-related financial complaints, according to new data from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). AFCA's half-year statistics revealed scam-related complaints made up 23% ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
Australia is once again being infected - infected with optimism, that is. We have discussed previously how the domestic economy has contracted less sharply than its peers and has rebounded stronger relative to its peer, later confirmed by the OECD 'Economic ...