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Fidante forms partnership with $500m firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... positioning business managing director David Sabath. It specialises in event-driven investments including distressed securities and long/short credit and equity strategies. Ford said partnering with Challenger and Fidante will "allow us to better focus ...

Janus Henderson portfolio manager joins Aussie boutique

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... alternative investments at Perennial, an executive director at Wallara Asset Management and a research analyst at ANZ Securities. "David's career spans 30 years in equity research and portfolio management, so we're confident that his knowledge and experience ...

FinTech Australia appoints interim chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... Under Szetho's leadership the association dealt with policy outcomes which included: The creation of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regulatory sandbox; Bringing equity crowdfunding to Australia; Removing the double-taxing ...

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... and fallen in a way that shows no correlation with the growth of indexing, and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant, except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis," Vanguard said. Vanguard has a 28.5% ...

Life insurer profitably improving: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... non-investment-linked assets were $97.1 billion at the end of 2017. Breaking this down to asset classes, 55% was invested in debt securities ($14.2bn); 14.7% in equities ($5.2bn); and 5.3% in property ($9.6bn). For risk products, individual lump sum ...

Sequoia expands advice arm, boosts top line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... of Melbourne-based financial planning and accounting services firm InterPrac, and online trading platform Morrison Securities during the period. It also migrated its businesses into four core divisions. InterPrac, valued at $12.38 million, added immediate ...

Most investors shun credit ratings: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... offering overly favourable evaluations of insolvent financial institutions" and approving extremely risky mortgage-related securities, according to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Perhaps the biggest criticism of credit raters is the 'issuer ...

CFSGAM cuts long-standing investment capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... strategies - Global Equities - Specialist equities teams managing global equities strategies including Global Infrastructure Securities, Global Property Securities and a range of global systematic and index strategies - Fixed Income and Cash - Independent ...

Bell FG flags US expansion

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... platform, Third Party Platform contributed $14.2 million to the top line, up 15% year-on-year. Bell FG owns Bell Potter Securities, Bell Potter Capital, and is a majority shareholder (56.63%) in Third Party Platform, the provider of the Bell Direct and ...

Russell revamps ESG scoring system

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
... Russell argued these "one-size-fits-all" scoring systems are composed of non-material issues in many cases. Of the 66% of securities in the Russell Global Large Cap Index, apparently fewer than 25% of data-points in traditional scores are considered ...