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AMP launches new advice business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
AMP is launching a new financial advice business with 11 branded practices throughout Australia. Appropriately named AMP Advice, the new business is integrating face-to-face adviser experiences with new technologies designed to make "goals-based advice ...

GSAM and Deutsche Bank back new PE firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Deutsche Bank Private Equity have become limited partners in the launch of an independent private equity firm. Stage Capital, newly separated from the National Bank of Greece, will be backed by funds managed by the ...

Funds management giants in historic merger

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Two major global managers have agreed to an all-stock merger of equals. Henderson and Janus Capital, post-merger, will be known as Janus Henderson Global Investors. The combined entity will represent over US$320 billion in assets under management and ...

Vanguard reduces MERs on five funds

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Vanguard has lowered the management expense ratios on five of its Australian funds. The fee reductions apply to the Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield Fund (from 0.4% p.a. to 0.38%), Vanguard Australian Property Securities Index Fund (0.24% to 0.23%) ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
MSCI head of Research Remy Briand has countered a recent paper from AllianceBernstein which suggested passive investing is "worse than Marxism." The original paper, spearheaded by Bernstein Investment Research and Management head of global quantitative ...

Willis Towers Watson hires consultant from WA Super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
Willis Towers Watson has appointed a new investment consultant. Andrew Guilfoyle joins WTW from WA Super, where he was an investment analyst. Prior to that, he was an investment strategist at the Government Employees Superannuation Board and an analyst ...

Blue Sky reshuffles directors

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
Blue Sky has made two new appointments to its board of directors. Elaine Stead has extensive experience with Blue Sky, having joined in 2013 as head of venture capital; during that time, she launched two venture capital funds and deployed over $80 million ...

Infrastructure debt funds reaching 2012 highs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
The unlisted infrastructure debt fund market collectively raised US$11.6 billion in 2016, approaching the 2012 high of US$12 billion. A Preqin report on the sector said this suggested "debt is becoming a more significant part of the unlisted infrastructure ...

Praemium appoints head of distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Praemium has appointed a new head of distribution along with two other new hires. Martin Morris joins Praemium from portfolio administration firm Complete Super Solutions, where he was chief executive. Prior to that, he was a managing partner at 3rdphase ...

Aspen Group appoints new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Property investment manager Aspen Group has appointed a new chief executive. Joel Cann joins Aspen from AMB Capital Partners, where he was the founding managing director; like Aspen, AMB focused on property investment via 360 Capital Property Group ...