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Investment consultant adds to insurance team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
The country's largest investment consultant has named a new head of insurance strategy to lead expanded insurance advisory services across the sector. JANA announced Greg Wilkinson will be taking on the newly created role, having been promoted from ...

Morningstar sticks to AMP Capital ratings

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... spokesperson said. "Our analysts are focused on providing in-depth, accurate, and useful analysis that will help investors select strategies that will outperform and avoid those that will underperform, and we regularly review and monitor strategies for ...

Technology can ease adviser red tape: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
Digital innovation could be the answer to tackling product-choice confusion and reducing red tape in the financial advice sector, according to an academic. Pamela Hanrahan, a lawyer and professor at University to New South Wales Business School, told ...

VanEck to launch four new ETFs

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
VanEck is set to launch four new ETFs, capitalising on innovation in healthcare and major worldwide trends such as eSports. These include a Video Gaming and eSports ETF (ESPO), Global Healthcare Leaders ETF (HLTH), Morningstar World ex-Australia Wide ...

Retail investors surpass one million

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
The retail investor population has surged 41% since the beginning of the year, with now more than one million punters trying to profit from recent market volatility. In Investment Trends 2020 1H Online Investing Report, the research house found the ...

Morgan Stanley duo establishes advice boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Two former Morgan Stanley financial advisers have started a new private wealth firm focused on HNW and UHNW clients. Craig Emanuel and Tim Whybourne have worked together for 10 years, at UBS and more recently, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management. ...

Cromwell fights ARA takeover

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Cromwell Property Group is calling on shareholders to vote against ARA Asset Management's takeover, which Cromwell calls "hostile". In a note to shareholders, Cromwell said that ARA had called an extraordinary general meeting to be held on 18 September ...

Sunsuper announces investment, insurance changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... Sunsuper updated their fees and costs. Overall, the fees and costs for most options decreased, with the exception of a select few. These included Emerging Markets Shares, Australian Property Index, Diversified Bonds and Diversified Bonds - Index. The ...

Wealthy Aussies panic buy life insurance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
High net worth investors have resorted to panic buying life insurance products as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic despite low trust in the providers, according to the latest research from GlobalData. The analytics and data firm's 2020 Global Wealth ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
Emerging-market (EM) debt rebounded strongly in the second quarter across hard currency sovereign and corporate credit as well as local-currency debt, according to Eaton Vance. Eaton Vance institutional portfolio manager director and alternative and ...