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Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Australian housing values continued to decline for the third consecutive month in July and are set to drop even further when government support winds down, according to the latest research from CoreLogic. CoreLogic's home value index dropped 0.6% last ...

Zenith names new general manager

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
Zenith Investment Partners has appointed a new general manager, following the acquisition of Chant West's superannuation and consulting business. Former Chant West head of research Ian Fryer has been promoted as Chant West's general manager, and will ...

AMP, BT and CBA to face class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
A new class action from Shine Lawyers alleges that more than half a million Australians were charged excessive insurance premiums by financial advisers aligned with AMP, BT and Commonwealth Bank. Proceedings have already been filed against AMP, which ...

Another merger at First State Super

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
First State Super and WA Super signed a memorandum of understanding and entered due diligence on March 4 this year. The funds are expected to finalise a merger by November 30. WA Super, the smaller of the two, will get low fees, greater investment options ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
Down, down, prices are down... big time! The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the country's headline inflation dropped by 1.9% in the June quarter - the largest quarter on quarter decline in the 72-year history that the statistician ...

Banks ordered to reduce dividend payout ratios

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
Banks and insurers have been asked to retain at least half of their earnings while deciding dividends until December, after APRA issued revised guidelines. The prudential regulator in April asked banks and insurers to consider deferring dividend decisions ...

Advisers file class action against AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
A class action has been filed against AMP by its own advisers in relation to the institution's decision to slash Buyer of Last Resort valuations last year. Almost one year on from the news BOLR valuations would be cut from 4x recurring revenue to ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
For the first time since October 2009, Tasmania has taken out CommSec's top gong as the best performing economy in its own right. It replaces Victoria, which has held the top spot in the online stockbroker's State of the States survey - either outright ...

Sydney boutique winds up fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Redpoint Investment Management has wound up its industrials fund but will continue to offer it as the much-bigger model portfolio. The boutique decided to shutter its industrials fund (and equivalent mFund), saying it has not been able to grow the funds ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Westpac's money laundering woes continue to worsen, with the bank today announcing it has uncovered hundreds of thousands of additional transactions of $10,000 or more that are "incomplete or inaccurate" to AUSTRAC. After further investigation, the ...