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IFM Investors launches new equities team

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
IFM Investors has rolled out a new active large cap equity team that will be headed by former AMP Capital head of multi-strategy funds Lachlan Davis. The global fund manager has appointed nine equity investment professionals to its listed equities division ...

Zurich appoints global life chief

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Zurich has appointed a new chief executive, global life. Gary Shaughnessy has taken on the role having been chief executive of Zurich UK Life since June 2012. He also became Zurich's UK country head in 2014. Prior to Zurich, he was managing director ...

GBST appoints new MD as chair retires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Industry software provider GBST has appointed a new managing director and chief executive. Following Stephen Lake's departure from the position in September, Robert De Dominicis will take up the lead role, having headed the company's wealth management ...

MYEFO writes down billions in super fund taxes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The federal government has all but conceded superannuation funds will not have the greatest 2016 after significant tax write downs in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) were released yesterday. Superannuation fund taxes have been written ...

FPA charity names new chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Future2, the charitable foundation of the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), has appointed Matthew Rowe as chair and added three new directors/trustees. Rowe has been the Future2 chair elect since 2014. He joined the Future2 board in ...

PwC appoints SMSF specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
A growing number of PwC clients moving in to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) has led to a new appointment at the professional services firm. Recently joining as director of PwC Private Clients is Liz Westover. She is expected to bolster PwC's ...

Modest rise in retirement living costs: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Retirees will welcome a modest rise in cost of living during the September quarter but retirement savings balances are still below par in order to live a comfortable lifestyle. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released its ...

Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Nikko Asset Management's global investment committee (GIC) has lifted its stance on global equities to moderately overweight from neutral, citing healthy economic growth prospects in the United States. The Tokyo-based company's investment committee ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Australia is still someway off rebalancing its economy following the end of the mining boom and investors must consider the real possibility of recession, warns PIMCO. While the chair of the fund manager's Asia-Pacific portfolio committee, Adam Bowe ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The top earning international shares exchange traded product (ETP) didn't even exist 12 months ago. Its category didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. ...