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ANZ senior manager leaves to set up consultancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... manager of mandate research will set up his own consultancy, as the bank streamlines the Office of the CIO division. Nigel Douglas confirmed to Financial Standard that he has set up Douglas Funds Consulting, a firm that will provide consultancy services ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

Affinia announces adviser award winners

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... Practice of the Year was won by Langley Securities' Peter Blassis, Emerging Gun of the Year by Mad about Life's Jodie Douglas and the chairman's award went to Specialised Advice's Sacha Burchgart. "It is so important for us all to recognise the great ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Workplace Super Specialists Australia (WSSA) chief executive Douglas Latto believes more can be done to improve intra-fund advice for superannuation members in a system that is currently reactive and lacking penetration. Speaking at the inaugural WSSA ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Magellan Financial Group reported a 110% increase in net profit for the year to 30 June 2015 mainly thanks to double digit returns in all of its funds. "The largest contributor to funds under management during the past was actually investment performance. ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... Fed lift-off Virginia. And just so you and I don't miss that point, the Australian Financial Review (AFR) even quoted Douglas Borthwick -- head of foreign exchange Chapdelaine & Co - saying that, "I'm in the December camp - I think the Fed talks hawkish ...

Fund managers take cover behind cash sandbags

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Fund managers have ratcheted up their cash positions to levels not seen since before the financial crisis, the latest global survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows. The July numbers show that cash levels have soared to an average of 5.5%, up ...

CSSA guided by new name and code of conduct

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA) will be now known as Workplace Super Specialists Australia (WSSA). WSSA chief executive, Douglas Latto, said a new code of conduct has been enshrined for members who will continue to work to a set of guiding principles ...

Groups call for default super fund decoupling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... be addressed is why some employees should be denied their choice. Corporate Super Specialist Alliance chief executive, Douglas Latto, said the union's negotiating and bargaining agreements "would obviously be drawn to promote the industry fund to which ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Magellan Asset Management has increased the cash weighting in its Global Equity Strategy from 10% to 15% in a bid to hedge the portfolio from an impending rise in US interest rates. Douglass argued that there is a "Great Disagreement" as to where the ...