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Centrepoint pulls out of NEOS Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
Centrepoint Alliance will no longer back life insurance startup NEOS Life, requesting its investment be repaid in full sooner than originally agreed to. In line with its recent strategy refresh, a review of Centrepoint's assets and interests determined ...

FIIG turns to institutional market

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
FIIG Securities has made a series of appointments over 2018 to assist its growth in the institutional fixed income market. FIIG, which has $8 billion in securities under advice, officially announced the appointments of three directors and an associate ...

Challenger kicks off active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners has listed its first active ETF as it dips its toes in the exchange-traded fund market. The Ardea Real Outcome Bond Fund (ASX: XARO) has become the first launch out of the ActiveX banner that ...

Insurer awards $80m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
An Australian insurer has awarded a Natixis affiliate a mandate to manage $80 million in an absolute return strategy. The H20 Adagio strategy targets an absolute return between 2-4% per year, over the recommended two-year investment period through investments ...

Industry dubious about one regulatory body: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
The financial services industry is ambivalent about having one overarching regulator, Financial Standard 's latest survey shows. Asked if it was feasible to merge APRA and ASIC, Financial Standard' s readership was split. The structure of Australia's ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Could it be? Could it be that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is now pondering the likelihood that the next move in interest rates is down rather than up? In early June this year, I put forth a thesis that long stretches of steady interest rates ...

Boutique behemoth in the making

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
A global insurer and asset manager is aiming to become one of the world's five largest multi-boutique platforms in the next five years as it acquires a London-based alternative manager. Generali is acquiring CM Investment Solutions (CMISL) from Bank ...

ASIC strips Melbourne firm of AFSL

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The corporate regulator has cancelled the AFSL of a Melbourne-based firm that previously copped a $9 million fine for offering personal loans with the proviso customers implement financial advice from the firm. Financial Circle's Australian financial ...

CBA investigates possible privacy breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
Commonwealth Bank confirmed it is undertaking an investigation into a potential privacy breach that may have seen sensitive medical information of CommInsure claimants accessed by employees in other departments of the bank. As reported by the ABC earlier ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted an optimistic picture of the global and domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be ...