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Contango to launch global active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... market, which follows the company previously reducing its headcount as part of a relocation from Melbourne to Sydney in April. At the time, Switzer said Sydney was the "right place to be," adding: "We still have a three-person team in Melbourne, though ...

Industry responds to Dover shutdown

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... services." In this context, and that of Dover chief executive Terry McMaster's appearance at the Royal Commission in April, the AFA acknowledged that efforts to facilitate meetings between its licensee partners and affected advisers may provide little ...

CountPlus rolls out new service to member firms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... "owner-driver-partner" business model, which was also evidenced by member firm Robson Partners acquiring Walker & Andrews in April. Discussing this at the time, he said: "To compete and succeed, the company has indicated it will step up and out of the ...

Aussie fixed income managers with global teams outperform: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... fixed income sector, fund managers that ran global teams outperformed those with domestic-only teams over the 10 years to April, according to the latest research from Zenith Investment Partners. However, the edge in the global-teams' performance ...

Former NAB adviser permanently banned

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... Eung was likely to contravene credit legislation and was not a fit and proper person to engage in credit activities. In April, ASIC permanently banned another former NAB adviser, Grant Taylor, for withdrawing almost $2 million of private client funds ...

AMP slides off ASX top 20

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... the S&P/ASX 20 include a BlackRock ETF, the iShares S&P/ASX 20 ETF, which did not have AMP in its top-10 holdings as at April 30. The S&P/ASX 20 index measures the performance of 20 actively-traded and highly liquid securities that are among the largest ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... Governor Haruhiko Kuroda explained the reason for eliminating the target date, at his post-meeting conference after the 26th April BOJ meeting: "There was a market tendency to see our forecast as a deadline, and to seek connection between the forecast ...

SMSFs missing out on returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... shied from growth assets, underperformed default MySuper investment strategies by 1.2 percentage points in the 12 months to April 2018. The average SMSF returned 6.6% before fees and tax, while the average default MySuper product hit 7.8%, according ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... though was running at around 6%. 'Twas the same when the RBA held interest rates unchanged at 2% between May 2015 and April 2016 or at 4.75% back in November 2010 to October 2011, both were followed by a reduction in interest rates. Just saying. ...

CYBG revises Virgin Money offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... be distributed to shareholders. The remaining 25% will be sold to institutional investors via an IPO. NAB flagged in late April it expects CYBG will increase its provisions for legacy payment protection insurance costs by £350 million ($642m). Under ...