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Statewide appoints new chief technology officer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
Statewide Super has hired a new chief technology officer who previously headed up technology and security at Sunsuper. David Cook will step into the role at the $10 billion industry fund. He spent a total of seven years at Sunsuper, six of those as ...

Frydenberg bets on infrastructure for recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
An additional $10 billion will help rebuild the nation's ageing infrastructure and ultimately create more jobs to stabilise the flailing economy, according to the Treasurer. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is hoping the infrastructure spent on ...

Chief economist update: Winter of Europe's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
"The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day." - Dr. Seuss They've had their fun in the sun but now, like it or not (certainly not), Europe could well have to sit it out and hibernate for the ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
"The summer has ended When it left, you left too..." -Leif Garrett, When I Think of You' Right in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere summer, the Euro Stoxx-50 index surged by 42.7% from the eight-year low it plumbed in the middle of March this ...

Brace for 5% returns from global stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
Investors in global equities should expect 4.9% in annualised returns over the next five years, which is lower than historic averages, according to Northern Trust's annual asset class return predictions. Northern Trust every year publishes its expectations ...

Rapper charged over crypto scandal

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
US rapper and actor T.I. is one of five individuals charged over his role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency offering, after the Securities and Exchange Commission found he had promoted and sold tokens on his social media accounts. Clifford Harris Jr, better ...

Law firm demands Pahari documents from AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... misleading efforts" from AMP to diminish the sexual harassment allegedly perpetrated by Pahari. Szlakowski was in charge of the North American distribution for AMP Capital's infrastructure debt and equity strategies in 2016, reporting to Pahari who was ...

QIC appoints committee chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... Marcus Simpson, who retired as the head of global private capital. Stephen Whatmore moved into the role after leading the North American team and setting up the QIC global private capital office in San Francisco. QIC's chief risk officer of seven years ...

AMP launches new managed portfolios

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... managed." AMP said its total managed portfolio assets under management increased four-fold in 2019, while net cashflows onto the North platform increased by more than 150% in Q1 2020, year on year.

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 ...