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Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... strong momentum - a sign that change is both investable and enduring," Lowenstein said. "Morphic explores an all cap, all country universe of investable opportunities, which is a pretty wide field of securities. It is therefore important that we are ...

BetaShares launches new sector ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... benefit for investors, as by diversifying their banking exposure on an international scale, they can reduce Australian country-specific risk in general, and risks associated with the Australian housing sector in particular." These two products are part ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... the West of Libya, 400,000 barrels per day of production is shut in at the Sharara and El-Feel fields. The cost to the country is plain: tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue, and the collapse of our social fabric." The money released by the Presidency ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
As the country head of global fund manager, Standard Life Investments' Simone Bouch knows a thing or two about the importance of investment performance. But if she'd followed through on her childhood ambition the focus would be performance of a somewhat ...

Brexit won't impact Australia greatly: Treasurer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
The body representing Australia's top four financial authorities says the country is well placed to manage the economic and financial repercussions of Brexit. The Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) presented a report to the federal government earlier ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... engineering professionals are in high demand, and there is a boom in technology sector hiring. The ACT is leading the country in terms of technology employment growth - where almost 1 in 2 employers are looking to add technology staff. Japan govt says ...

BlackRock appoints Australia head

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
BlackRock has appointed a new country head of Australia. Dominik Rohe was previously based in New York, working in BlackRock's Latin America and Iberia business as head of institutional and wealth lines. Prior to that, he was head of institutional and ...

Strong leadership at the heart of adaptive change

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
Making its way across the country the 2016 Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) practitioner roadshow is reminding advisers of the importance of adaptivity across all levels of the business. Speaking at the Sydney roadshow, founder and chief executive ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... expectations. The June quarter annual growth rate is the fastest expansion since March 2015 and was due to stronger growth in the country's manufacturing sector, up by 0.8% year-on-year in the second quarter, reversing the first quarter's 0.5% fall. ...

NAB merger creates largest retail super fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
NAB has merged five of its super funds into one, creating the largest retail fund in the country. The new MLC Super Fund comprises MLC MasterKey and Plum superannuation offerings, and represents roughly $70 billion in funds under management - this makes ...