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Direct indexing: The next evolution?

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
... market for this strategy: the rise of commission- free trading and fractional share stock investing. Meanwhile, asset managers are responding to this momentum by acquiring direct indexing providers, introducing their own proprietary solutions, and applying ...

BlackRock strengthens Australasia, APAC leadership

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... high-level responsibility for sales and client servicing across sovereign entities, pension funds, banks, insurers, asset managers, asset consultants, family offices and financial advice practices," BlackRock said.. Across the Pacific, Hiroyuki Shimizu ...

Investors Mutual appoints strategic relationship manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... 1998, quality and value manager IML is an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, one of the world's largest asset managers with approximately US$1.4 trillion in AUM (as at June 30, 2021).

CFS awards platform technology mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... ultimately, we will launch a new wrap platform offering by the end of this year," he said. FNZ works with global asset managers and insurers such as Vanguard, abrdn, Findex, and Singlife. CFS chose FNZ following a 12-month selection process based on ...

Digital advice predicted to soar in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
Asset managers and superannuation funds will ramp up their digital advice offerings in 2022 as the reality of financial advisers exiting sets in. Technology firm Finura predicts the wealth management and super sectors will invest heavily in digital ...

Future Super acquires Aon's super business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021
... the long term, enabling us to become one of the largest and most cost-effective sustainable impact investors and asset managers in Australia." Close to 50 employees will transfer to Future Super as part of the transaction, doubling the size of the fund's ...

ClearView, Manulife to launch retirement products

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... drawdowns," ClearView managing director Simon Swanson said. "We are excited to partner with one of the world's leading asset managers to come up with solutions for Australia's large pre-retiree and retiree market." Manulife's head of wealth and asset ...

Governance tops ESG priorities: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
Asset managers are prioritising governance and active engagement above other ethical investing matters, a new study shows. Russell Investments' annual ESG manager survey found that among the majority (80%) of the global 369 asset managers it surveyed ...

abrdn outlines climate change action plan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2021
... seismic change will come from backing credible transition firms on their path from high to low carbon intensity." And asset managers cannot operate in a vacuum, he said. "Bolder, collective action by governments is desperately needed. Effective incentives ...

Governments must act on net zero: Morningstar

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
Asset managers around the world are working hard to turn their investment strategies into measurable emissions reductions, but must be attuned to the risk of net zero washing, new research says. Morningstar's latest report, Asset Managers and Net ...