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Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The monetary and fiscal masters of the US of A fronted the Senate Banking Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair ...

Foreign exchange brokers banned

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
The corporate watchdog has banned the sole director and four employees of contracts-for-difference and FX broker Forex Capital Trading from providing financial services. Forex CT chief executive officer, responsible manager and sole director Shlomo ...

Life Company of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
The Association of Financial Advisers has announced the winner of its 2020 Life Company of the Year award, going to the same insurer four years in a row. TAL took out the top spot again with runners up AIA Australia, MLC Life Insurance and NEOS Life. ...

Westpac merges consumer, business divisions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
Westpac has announced it will combine the leadership of its consumer and business divisions to form a new consumer and business banking division, with one executive exiting the business. Westpac said the new division will be led by the current chief ...

ASIC bans adviser over dodgy super consolidation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
ASIC has permanently banned a Melbourne financial adviser for allegedly pressuring people into consolidating their superannuation for a fee. Nizi Bhandari has been banned from providing financial services permanently. He was an authorised representative ...

Future Fund buys into renewables

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... established in 2016 and is a partnership been AGL and QIC on behalf of their managed clients and the Future Fund. Mercury will run the renewables business while the PowAR consortium will own 100% of the shares. PowAR is acquiring Tilt shares for NZ$7.80 ...

Chief economist update: Japan to double down on stimulus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... convinced that the BOJ's move to significantly impact Japan's economic growth and inflation (largely because it will run out of JGBs to buy)- a sentiment echoed by LDP lawmaker Kozo Yamamoto. Yamamoto - a key player in devising "Abenomics" - ...

Frontier zeroes in on poor culture

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... leaders who knowingly maximised profits at the expense of unsuspecting customers that were unearthed, poor practices continue to run rampant. "Senior executives need to assess their own behaviours to see if there is a gap between their values and those ...

GROW Super rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
GROW Super has rebranded to GROW Inc in a bid to diversify away from its superannuation offering. GROW Inc offers business and data intelligence software to growing companies, underpinned by distributed ledger technology. GROW, for example, integrates ...

Remediation services profiting from Royal Commission failures

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... just last year. People who think they may be eligible for a refund from the multi-million-dollar remediation programs being run by all of Australia's largest financial institutions can use Remediator to manage the refund process. However, Remediator's ...