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Instos partner with Canadian government

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
Several global institutional investors representing more than $7 trillion in assets have joined with the Canadian government to invest in gender equality and infrastructure in emerging and frontier markets. In partnership with the Canadian government ...

Netwealth boosts class action involvement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
In its latest round of platform enhancements, Netwealth has added the ability for investors to participate in class actions. As of this month, Netwealth has made available information on open class actions within the platform's Corporate Actions ...

BetaShares launches fixed-rate corporate bond ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
Australia's fourth largest exchange traded product manager has listed a new ETF that will invest in up to 35 fixed-rate corporate bonds. BetaShares has launched CRED, an ETF that will invest in investment grade securities denominated in Aussie dollars ...

Unpaid super reaches $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Industry Super Australia is lobbying the Federal Government to improve proposed laws that further address unpaid superannuation, a figure estimated to be about $5.9 billion as at 2015-16. Speaking to a Senate committee hearing in Canberra on Friday ...

Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Citi Australia is continuing its increased push into the local wealth management market, introducing a currency product targeted at globetrotting high-net-worth investors. The Global Currency Account is launching as a transaction account with the ability ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
Just when the threatening clouds of Quitaly and its negative repercussions on the whole of the Eurozone has dissipated, US President Donald Trump's trade protectionist policy in the name of American national security comes back to haunt. Not that ...

Super scorecard to shift consumer playing field

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
An independent think tank is launching a sustainable retirement scorecard as a self-assessment tool for superannuation funds to benchmark performance in managing members' retirement. The Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes (CSRI) is introducing ...

StatePlus awards custody mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
StatePlus has awarded a custody mandate to the same provider as its $90 billion parent First State Super. The financial advice and investments firm's custody mandate was won by State Street. State Street will now provide StatePlus with back office ...

Parametric wins $60m global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
Parametric won a $60 million mandate for its tax-managed indexing (TMI) strategy from an $8.5 billion super fund. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (ACSRF) previously awarded Parametric an after-tax passive global equities mandate ...

More victims of financial crime in APAC: Reuters

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
The latest financial crime research from Thomson Reuters found companies in Asia Pacific experienced financial crime above the global level. The survey found that globally 47% of companies had fallen victim to financial crime, however regionally, APAC ...