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Pension fund joins action against Facebook

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... Cambridge Analytica. The litigation at hand is a pending derivative lawsuit against Facebook's leadership, including the social media company's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. CalSTRS said intervening in the existing derivative suit will give it the ...

Managed funds versus the ASX 200

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
Aussie equities managers had a hard time beating the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation index in the year to June and the underperformance gap has widened significantly over the past four years, according to new Rainmaker research. Just one in 10 wholesale managed ...

BlackRock backs lifestyle, marketing firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... LTPC is a testament to the success we have had building a leading platform for the ownership and development of brand and media content," Authentic Brands chair and chief executive Jamie Salter said. "We believe BlackRock's scale, global footprint ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... the main ones." These were the words St. Louis Fed president James Bullard podcast in his interview with Karen Mracek - media relations coordinator at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - overnight (on August 14). Perhaps I'm turning into a Dr. Doom ...

What is holding Aussie robo advisers back?

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... Further, US robo advisers used an average of 37 ETFs while building portfolios but their Australian counterparts only used a media on 11 ETFs. Super, risk advice hard to find in robos Robo advisers ask a client a set of personal financial questions to ...

AFA names education award finalists

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... value of $25,000. Felicity Cooper of Cooper Wealth Management won last year's award. Financial Standard is the official media partner of the 2019 AFA National Conference, to be held in Adelaide August 28-30.

Praemium FUA skyrockets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... due to lower costs driven by commission expense that was slashed by more than half to $2.4 million. Referring to recent media coverage of investment platforms providing low or negative interest rates on cash investments, chief executive Michael Ohanessian ...

Adviser of the Year finalists named

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... the peak of achievement and recognition for Australia's premier financial advisers. Financial Standard is the official media partner for the 2019 AFA National Conference to be held in Adelaide, August 28-30.

CFS trims corporate super distribution team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
Colonial First State (CFS) has handed redundancies to about seven distribution staff working on its corporate superannuation offering as inflows into FirstChoice Employer stall. The departures - all business development managers - come as FirstChoice ...

Renewed calls for risk-adjusted returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... calls for a fairer, like-for-like comparison that focuses on risk as the key metric. The propensity for research houses, the media - and even the Productivity Commission - to use average returns as the ultimate yardstick for outperformance has drawn ...