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Infrastructure manager grows local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
A global infrastructure manager has hired from Clearview and Powerwrap as it expands its Australian team. RARE infrastructure has hired Hamish Bell to support its distribution team with investment and technical sales expertise. In his most recent role ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... independent non-executive director. Commenting on his new role, Rogers said: "In joining Integrity, I've been given the rare opportunity to build a new product from the ground up. I'm tremendously excited to be part of the team on this journey ...

Reforms impact adviser mental health

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Financial advisers must band together to support their peers who are struggling to cope with the immense change occurring in the industry. Speaking at the AFA National Adviser Conference, Mindstar chief executive Aaron Williams said an increasing number ...

AFA remains steady ahead of FASEA reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... term. Bineham said the reappointments bode well, given the challenges facing the advice industry at present. "This is quite rare to do. It's just a very difficult time, and where we at the moment with the Royal Commission and FASEA, we just want that ...

The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... on boards is crucial. "When I first came onto the board in January 2012, my first AIC seminar suggested that women were a rare commodity," Collins said. "This has changed significantly over the last six years, and so has the experience of the board. ...

Super funds underplay risk profiles: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
Superannuation funds are potentially "underplaying" the riskiness of investment options to members, hence making it difficult to accurately compare products. This is according to new research from Monash Business School, which highlights the lack of ...

Pacific Current invests $95m in US firm, sells Aussie infrastructure stake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... he said. The acquisition follows an announcement from Pacific Current Group that it is selling its residual 10% stake in RARE Infrastructure. In October 2015, Pacific Current Group sold a majority of its holding in RARE to Legg Mason. The latter is the ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
It must be because Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy exit speculations have died down or that Japan's response to Donald Trump's tariff increases has been less confrontational than China, the EU or even Canada but Japan had rarely been on headlines in recent ...

Global fund manager creates executive role

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... build investment portfolios for market crises, CFM president Philippe Jordan said true-to-label balanced portfolios have been rare since the Global Financial Crisis. Jordan said the disappearance means investors have become over-reliant on equity returns ...

Zurich AREITs fund receives Morningstar stamp of approval

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... outperformed the Morningstar category average and index over the medium and long term, which according to Morningstar is rare.