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Financial services least trusted industry: Edelman

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... 66% public trust respectively. The Edelman Trust Barometer surveyed 33,000 people in 28 countries between October and November 2020. Edelman suggested the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted consumer trust of corporates. For example, chief executive ...

Investors on red alert despite vaccines

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... study of 400 reveals. Natixis Investment Managers' annual 2021 Professional Fund Buyer Outlook, conducted between November and December 2020, shows six in 10 participants believe the COVID-19 new normal is here to stay. Two-thirds expressed a more ...

Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... 51/2 per cent at the end of next year, reaching around 51/4 per cent by mid 2023." Three months earlier, the RBA's November 2020 SoMP forecast the unemployment rate at 6.5% by the end of this year and 6.0% in 2022 - themselves, upgraded from the ...

Iress names chair, profit slides

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... $155.6 million. Iress chief executive Andrew Walsh said the integration of OneVue is underway following the acquisition in November. "We are combining the largest provider of adviser and trading software in Australia with the largest unlisted fund registry ...

AFCA chair under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... "misplaced reliance" on Barton was not a flaw on Coonan's part. Coonan announced at the AFCA annual general meeting in November that she would not be seeking reappointment in May 2021. However, that's not enough for the Victims of Financial Fraud ...

Industry fund chief executive to depart

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... superannuation sector and to UniSuper's success was appropriately recognised by the Fund Executives' Association last November, when he was named FEAL Fund Executive of the Year 2020." Commenting on his departure, O'Sullivan said he was looking forward ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... in line with market expectations. Though the monthly addition in jobs has slowed from 180,000 in October and 90,000 in November, it remains a great feat when placed in the context of the resurgence in domestic and overseas coronavirus infections over ...

Cbus appoints three investment heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... our members," Cbus chief investment officer Kristian Fok said. Cbus has the fifth best-performing MySuper option as at November end, with 4.2% p.a. returns. It was outstripped by Australian Ethical Super's default fund (6.1%p.a.), Vision Super (4.8%p.a.) ...

ASX profits slide, names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... cater for higher volumes and technology investment. The exchange noted the outage of its equity platform ASX Trade in November but did not acknowledge the ongoing investigation undertaken by ASIC. ASX chief executive Dominic Stevens said the incident ...

Chief economist update: Money plus confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... percentage points to a reading of +10 in January - above its long-run average of +6 and despite lower than the +13 recorded in November last year, remains the highest in three years. Improved consumer and business confidence would set off a virtuous ...