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8IP signs on Sanlam Private Wealth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
Eight Investment Partners (8IP) has entered a strategic support agreement with Sanlam Private Wealth to provide middle office services. The agreement builds on their existing relationship. Sanlam Private Wealth previously acquired 40% of 8IP, the latter ...

Aristotle enters Australian market

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... that Plus Capital introduced on EIO's behalf include a hotel project in Europe, a business jet airport in London and a mid-market private equity platform backed by $100 million of UHNW capital. Sydney-based Plus Capital distributed Causeway Capital ...

ANZ, IOOF revise wealth sale agreement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
The sale of ANZ's pensions and investments business may take longer than anticipated with contracts now amended following APRA's regulatory action against IOOF. Providing a further update on the sale, ANZ said it has agreed an amendment with ...

State Street names Asia Pacific head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
A State Street veteran will take the reins of the firm's Asia Pacific arm. Ian Martin, who currently heads State Street's global services offering across Asia Pacific, has been promoted to lead the entirety of the firm's efforts in the region. In succeeding ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... CommInsure and peers. It's sale to ISS will feed into the ISS's data intelligence arm. Both SI and ISS are owned by mid-market private equity firm Genstar Capital. Genstar Capital managing director Tony Salewski said: "ISS' acquisition of Strategic ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Australia's superannuation sector in trying to digest the Productivity Commission's 700-page report with its 31 recommendations need to keep in mind the massive structural problems it is trying to fix. The fundamental problem that has perplexed ...

Productivity Commission shakes up default superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission reinforced several recommendations flagged in mid-2018 in a bid to modernise the $2.7 trillion industry, which included shaking up the default sector. The Commission handed down 31 recommendations in its final report in assessing ...

CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... demerger and sold to Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) in a transaction expected to settle in mid-2019. Last month, Financial Standard reported Colonial First State swapped global equities managers for a $600 million mandate ...

Andrew Hagger to lead investment, philanthropy group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... investment business owned by mining magnate Andrew Forrest and wife Nicola. Hagger will relocate to Perth to start his new role in mid-March, leading both the philanthropic and commercial activities of the organisation as head of Minderoo Foundation ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Our resident chief economist explains why the continued drop in property prices could force the RBA to defy consensus and cut rates. First, some global context. US Federal Reserve has hinted that it will be more dovish with regards to monetary policy ...