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Prime Financial boosts wealth focus

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
Prime Financial Group is ramping up its wealth management focus and stepping away from minority interests in accounting firms. The ASX-listed firm said this is part of a strategy to increase its exposure in wealth management by concentrating on its ...

VanEck ETF receives ethical tick

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... organisms. High carbon emitters are also excluded from the investment universe. VanEck managing director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said: "We believe demand for investing in sustainable, transparent investment products will continue to rise ...

SSGA appoints APAC managing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... Jonathan Shead has worked in various SSGA roles since 2000; he was most recently head of portfolio solutions for the Asia Pacific region.

Aussie fund manager drops fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... change and additional expenses incurred. The $36.3 million K2 Asian Fund invests in listed equities throughout the Asia Pacific region ex Japan. It generated a 5.8% return over 10 years and 8.5% in the year to 31 May 2018. In May 2017, K2 announced it ...

ASX-listed multi-boutique names new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... $70 billion in assets under management worldwide has named its new chief executive. Paul Greenwood takes the reins at Pacific Current Group having previously been the group's chief investment officer and co-founder. Before joining Pacific Current ...

Equal weight portfolios outperform: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... exposure to these smaller stocks than market capitalisation weighting does," VanEck managing director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said. VanEck's reason: the distribution of individual stock returns is not the normal distribution that most ...

Record number of Australians seek CFA qualification

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... have registered for Level I, II and III exams this year across the globe. More than half of this number is from the Asia Pacific region. In the March results, more than half the test takers failed, Financial Standard reported.

Aurora reshuffles compliance team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
After the departure of two external members of its compliance committee, Aurora Funds Management appointed replacements with immediate effect. Anthony Hartnell joins the committee while also serving as Aurora's non-executive chair. He was previously ...

Quantifeed eyes Australian expansion with $13.5m raising

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... Financial Holdings, with participation from US-based asset manager Legg Mason, and will go towards Australia and Asia Pacific growth. "We will be growing the Australian team over the next six to 12 months and also open an office [on an undisclosed timeline]," ...

TAL veterans launch new life insurance provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... permanent disability, critical illness, child and income protection cover. Its products are issued by NobleOak and backed by Pacific Life Re. The business is led by managing director Brett Yardley, formerly TAL's head of life insurance solutions ...