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Evergreen makes senior hires

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Boutique investment consulting group, Evergreen Consultants, has appointed a director and head of quantitative analysis in response to the growing demand for its services. Bronwyn Skinner has joined Evergreen Consultants as a director. She has extensive ...

Mercer chooses new super insurance partner

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016

Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... relationships between their user-base and, in doing so, recognise which users weren't legitimate," he said. That kind of member analysis and engagement has yet to pervade the superannuation industry - perhaps because sex bots aren't yet a significant ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
While big data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which ...

New head of economics at ANZ

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... merged with Deutsche Bank in 1999. ANZ chief economist Richard Yetsenga said: "David's extensive experience, quality of analysis and strong reputation makes him the ideal person to lead our Australian economics team. He is a well-respected economist ...

Preqin buys solution platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... to help fund managers in navigating them. With Preqin's long expertise in turning raw data into meaningful insight and analysis, and its global access to investors' expectations, we have a unique understanding of the issues involved in this task, and ...

The $25 trillion decision US voters have to make

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... Historically, in the first quarter after the election, the S&P 500 had dropped an average of 7.6% pa, an ETF Securities analysis found. With the market capitalisation of US equities now sitting at more than A$25 trillion (more than half the world's total ...

Banks balancing profit and capital adequacy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... increasing regulatory pressure, according to several industry analysts. KPMG's Major Australian Banks Full Year 2016 Analysis Report shows a 2.5% drop in total after-tax profit to $29.6 billion over 2016. Average returns on equity also fell by 194 basis ...

Cromwell introduces Euro property fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... a long-term, open-ended core fund with an initial investment goal of €2 billion in gross asset value. Following the analysis of 163 European cities, Cromwell selected 29 driven by key macro-trends which they believe have the potential to generate sustainable ...

FirstChoice Alternatives adds new macro manager

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2016
... "The addition of H20 is expected to improve the risk return profile of the portfolio. Through diligent research and risk analysis, H20 comes to a view on the direction of various economic factors and trade the relative value within bond, currency, credit ...