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Responsible AUM strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
Nearly half (44%) of Australia's assets under management are invested responsibly, but the lack of awareness and qualified advice around responsible products remain the industry's biggest detractors. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia's ...

Government gives super system further makeover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... Giving APRA more capacity to take preventive and corrective action if it has prudential concerns about a fund or if a fund is not acting in the best interests of members. Giving APRA greater capacity to refuse or cancel a MySuper authorisation where ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... behaviour and set the right measurement both from a performance and ESG perspective." Despite the move, Furer told Reuters it will not be diverting investments away from any particular industries or companies as it is difficult to maintain diversification ...

Surge in adviser demand for managed accounts: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... that's shifting managed accounts from a high net worth product to a broad retail product. Managed accounts are definitely not for the high net worth clients anymore, Blomfield said, adding as little as $10,000 can be invested. Some 20% of the 474 advisers ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash rate setting of 11/2% today is not as expansionary as a cash rate of 11/2% would have been in the 1990s or the first half of the 2000s." Ergo, the cash rate ...

Equity Trustees appointed RE for boutique

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... are capital preservation, an attractive yield (including franking) and capital growth. It also focuses on investors who are not liable for tax. To achieve this investment target, Pentalpha invests in high quality, good value shares and exchange-traded ...

Investment managers turning to hungry retail market

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
Boutique and alternatives managers, traditionally the purview of institutional and wholesale investors, are turning to an increasingly sophisticated retail market to diversify their client bases. Consider Cooper Investors, the $11 billion global equities ...

Government paves the way for open banking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... banking-APIs platforms to populate their data bases and increase personalised customer service. "Australia's fintech industry will not be able to grow and become internationally competitive unless there are less barriers for challengers to enter the ...

Asset managers feeling profit squeeze

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
Profit margins of asset managers globally contracted for the first time since the Global Financial Crisis, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows, warning fee pressures are continuing to rise across the industry. Despite global assets under ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
Although not completely gangbusters, the latest Australian labour market update provided another justification for the optimism and seemingly hawkish turn the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) conveyed in the minutes of its 4 July board meeting. The Australian ...