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Balanced portfolios to reap rewards in 2024: UBS

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
... technologies to grow markets, dislodge incumbents, or slash costs. Those "leaders from disruption" are likely to be in technology, energy, and healthcare, they said. The report stated investors are also seeing attractive opportunities to acquire stakes ...

Macquarie Wrap rolls out new features for advisers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
Macquarie introduced new digital features and security enhancements on Macquarie Wrap, including account-level performance reporting and a live chat function in Adviser Online. The platform's updated account-level performance reporting functionality ...

IG appoints institutional sales manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023
... together, growing the company's institutional offering to a new height." IG Prime offers institutional services including technology, platforms, products, and exchanges to hedge funds, family offices and private investment vehicles, banks and brokers ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to acquire Link Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2023
... 2022. In 2021, Carlyle Asia Partners offered to acquire 100% of Link, valuing it at $5.38 per share. At one point, SS&C Technology Holdings was in the running and offered $5.65. Takafumi Ihara, The Trust Bank senior managing executive officer and business ...

Global fund managers welcome chief executives

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... strategic direction and vision of MFS, leading a team of investment, distribution, finance, human resources, legal and technology functions at the firm. "Having worked with Ted for nearly two decades, I have seen firsthand the profound impact that his ...

Local investors continue to flock to ETFs: VanEck

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
... long-term benefits of investing in ETFs. "We see the ETF market in Australia reaching $180 billion by the end of 2024." Technology and healthcare sectors are the most popular sectors for 2024; among different age groups, technology dominated investor ...

JPMAM to bring more alts strategies to wholesale investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023
... alternative assets under management across the globe. Under the new arrangement, iCapital will provide its financial technology platform to facilitate the distribution of JPMAM's global alternative strategies to Australian investors. JPMAM head of wholesale ...

MLC Life names general manager, remediation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
... significant body of work being undertaken by the business to further improve the systems, processes and industry-leading technology needed to offer an even better experience for advisers and customers, as well as superannuation funds, trustees and their ...

'Significant deficiencies' lead APRA to act against NGS Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
Almost nine months on from a cyber breach that saw member data taken, the $14 billion super fund will have to contend with additional licence conditions as it looks to remedy "significant deficiencies" in its cyber controls. As first reported by Financial ...

Nomura offshoot fined by ASIC disciplinary panel

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2023
... Instinet should have had systems and controls in place regarding the configuration and periodic review of critical trading technology systems and to ensure their ongoing integrity and compliance with the Rules," the MDP said. The failure to update its ...