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Pinnacle kicks off race to zero-fee ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
A local boutique is planning to launch Australia's first zero fee exchange traded fund. Pinnacle Investment Management is aiming to bring a zero-fee cash ETF to the ASX, managed by Omega Global Investors and says there may be room to implement the model ...

AFCA looks to expand senior ranks

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority is on the hunt for a new chief operating officer. The successful applicant will work with other ombudsmen and senior executives to develop and execute the organisational strategy and initiatives necessary ...

ASIC clamps down on opaque active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
The corporate regulator is set to ask ASX and Chi-X to stop admitting new active ETFs that use internal market making as it mulls a review, Financial Standard can reveal. ASIC has asked all market operators to not launch any new active ETFs with internal ...

IPOs fewer but performing well

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... listed in the six months to June, raising $823 million. This is significantly lower when compared to last year's total raise of over $8 billion. But the share price performance was better. Seventeen of the 23 IPOs recording first day gains for an ...

Active, passive investing continues to confuse: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
Active and passive management are still confusing investors, according to Natixis Investment Managers. Latest research from the global investment giant shows just over two thirds of surveyed investors across the globe understand the difference between ...

Global manager hires from Magellan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
An international manager with a growing local footprint has hired a Magellan business development manager as its wholesale distribution lead. GQG Partners appointed Daniel Bullock as director of wholesale markets Australia. Bullock was most recently ...

ATO clarifies SMSF death benefit income streams

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
The Australian Tax Office has released a new explanatory note on death benefit income streams, which a self-managed superannuation fund specialist has labelled as "confusing". The ATO said SMSFs recently raised a number of questions around the interaction ...

YouTube fundie called out by FCA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has criticised Neil Woodford who famously issued a tearful YouTube apology to investors whose money was frozen in one of his funds. Woodford Investment Management suspended trading in its Woodford Equity Income Fund ...

Perpetual Investments leaks $1.1bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
Perpetual's funds management business reported net outflows of $1.1 billion for the three months to June, with its Australian equities strategies taking the hardest blow. The value manager's Australian equities strategies recorded a net outflow of $1.2 ...

US bonds present ESG problem

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... bonds present by explaining that a lot of ESG related research focusses on listed companies "Most Australian companies will raise money through the banks but in the US more of it goes directly to the corporate bond market. So you have more unlisted companies ...