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Pension fund backs Aussie insurance distributor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
A major Canadian pension fund has taken a 33.4% stake in the Greenstone, the Sydney-based distributor of several retail insurance brands. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board has reached an agreement to acquire the stake from fellow Canadian pension ...

Swell AM launches retail trust

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
Swell Asset Management, a high conviction global equities boutique, has launched a retail trust. The Swell Global Fund replicates the group's existing absolute return strategy, which recently surpassed $100 million in funds under management. In the ...

InvestSMART launches installment investment product

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... [considerations] with respect to the peer-to-peer lending products as to how do we structure it, whether we do it through a retail corporate note or something." He said fundlater is in its pilot or first phase. The firm is aiming for $20 million in the ...

Criminal charges in property investor collapse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... and 2017. The property investment companies were operated from the Gold Coast and allegedly offered financial advice to retail investors. In 2016, the companies were placed into liquidation with $26 million owing to the Australian Tax Office. Marlborough ...

Adviser ETF take-up continues

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... findings form part VanEck's major survey of ETF investors, which had at total of 3047 responses. Broadly, self-directed or retail investors are also flocking to ETFs; some two thirds invest directly while one third invest via their self-managed superannuation ...

Investors demand credible climate information

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
Retail investors would have greater confidence in sustainability information it was subject to independent assurance, new research shows. The Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) Investor Confidence Survey recorded 87% of investors ...

ASIC urged to act on common ownership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... fund published their voting records. Industry super funds (59%) led the charge, followed by public sector funds (18%), retail funds (14%) and corporate funds (9%). Six of the largest super funds - AMP, BT, Colonial First State, Commonwealth Super Corporation ...

Vanguard Australia appoints new managing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... in 2011 as the chief financial officer. In 2017, he moved to the US as the divisional chief financial officer of the US retail investor group at Vanguard, which looks after over US$2 trillion in funds under management has over seven million investors. ...

Pinnacle acquires third-party distributor

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... the first time in Western Australia, the firm said. Upon completion, four Winston sales staff will join Pinnacle's retail distribution team which is headed by Ramsin Jajoo who joined a few years ago from Morningstar. "This is an important investment ...

Tim Wilson grills NAB on super ownership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... Australian institutional investors make up approximately 32.8% of the NAB share register, with the bulk of shares owned by retail investors. Over the last eight years, McEwan said, there has only been a slight change to the ownership mix of NAB shares. ...