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Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in both the United Kingdom and Australia. The appointment is the first of a series of new appointments Frontier flagged in July and is hopeful of completing ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... which over 90 percent of flows were concentrated in 10 countries. Singapore processed 24.4 percent followed by the United Kingdom with 21.6 percent." "More than 1,700 financial institutions made worldwide payments in the yuan, up 14 percent from a year ...

Multi-asset funds see huge lift in inflows

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... allocation products were usurping their role. Rule changes following the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in the United Kingdom have seen more advisers outsource asset allocation and many find MA products the best solution. The RDR is comparable to the ...

UK moves away from annuities: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Pension freedoms in the United Kingdom have created a "seismic movement" away from annuities according to UK-based financial researcher Defaqto. In its most recent white paper aimed at financial advisers working with retirement plans, Defaqto said that ...

IRESS acquires UK fintech businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
IRESS has acquired two financial technology businesses based in the United Kingdom as part of the strategy to develop its operations there. One of the businesses is Proquote Limited, a provider of trading, market data and connectivity solutions, owned ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... days of CPI plus 5% investment returns for superannuation funds are gone for the foreseeable future according to a United Kingdom based researcher. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... South Korea (7.5%) or Thailand (4.4%). As much as 3.2% of the fund is invested in Asian companies listed in the United Kingdom, a strategy that James says can be effective. Another interesting idea for Australian investors is to invest in the growing ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... line," Dunn said. There is already demand for Australia's fintech start-ups to head overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom and Singapore - something not lost on Stone and Chalk. "We need to be under no illusion that this is a global race against ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... legal and enforcement framework for foreign bribery with key international peer jurisdictions, in particular the United Kingdom and the United States. ACSI calls for "an offence of 'failure to prevent a culture of bribery', or equivalent, be introduced ...

IRESS sees profit in wealth management

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... Profit was also down 1.8% to UK$3.8 million compared with the same period. "Our wealth management business in the United Kingdom is experiencing increased demand where customer growth is focused on technology," Walsh said. "We have continued to observe ...