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Hedge fund award winner appoints senior investment analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... senior investment analyst. Justin Hay joins BLSEM, which recently won Best Market Neutral Fund at the annual Hedge Funds Rock & the Australian Hedge Fund Awards, from Optimal Fund Management Australia, where he was also a senior investment analyst. Prior ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...

Regal named best Australian hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... at an industry awards ceremony in Sydney last night. Gathering the hedge fund sector's best and brightest, the Hedge Funds Rock and Australian Hedge Fund Awards - now in its fifteenth year - celebrate the achievements of exceptional managers while at ...

Keep super ship steady in rocky markets: CIO

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
Kinetic Super chief investment officer Paul Kessell is encouraging superannuation investors not to act rashly in the wake of jittery share markets. Following a loss of more than 2% during Monday's trading on the ASX, investors may question whether share ...

Local hedge funds fighting for insto attention

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... hedge funds are still battling super funds' preference to look offshore for alternatives exposure, according to Hedge Funds Rock and The Australian Hedge Fund Awards co-founder Kim Ivey. Ahead of the awards night in September, Ivey said this is a "perennial" ...

Millennials getting personal with ANZ robo-adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
Millennials were more interested in asking ANZ's IBM Watson-powered robo-adviser whether it was married to Siri than getting insurance information, according to ANZ Group Innovation channel development manager Jeanette Cheah. Speaking on a panel at ...

Advisers must adapt to millennial habits

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
As the largest global demographic group and number one source of global income advisers must adapt their practices to meet the growing demands of millennials, according to Rocky Scopelliti, global industry executive - banking, finance and insurance ...

Credit ratings agencies sign PRI statement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
Six global credit ratings agencies are joining a Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative that will examine environmental, social and governance factors with a more systematic approach. Kick-starting the initiative was a PRI announcement ...

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... Wants to be a RockStar!' where entrants get to take off their financial services hat for one night and channel their inner rock artist. But make no mistake, this is not a karaoke night. The calibre of the contestants was so impressive you'd think they're ...

Up to 2.4m super members affected by CommInsure scandal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
Up to 2.4 million superannuation members could be impacted by the allegations which have rocked insurance company CommInsure, according to Rainmaker Information estimates. A joint investigation by Fairfax the ABC's 4 Corners alleged the company pressured ...