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BetaShares wins insto allocation

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... manager has also been on a product launch spree. It launched more products than any other ETF manager in the year ending March - and more like the A200 have followed since then. This week the manager said it would launch three new tech ETFs that had ...

HUB24 lifts targets

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
HUB24 has lifted its revenue targets for the next three years, as it its platform and advice licensee swelled their revenues in FY18. It is now expecting to hit $19-$23 billion in funds under advice in by FY21, as opposed to its last year's forecast ...

Former Magellan executive appointed to Contango board

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
Contango Asset Management has snapped up a former Magellan C-suite executive as an independent director. Nerida Campbell is joining Contango Asset Management's board as an independent non-executive director. She held key executive roles at the Hamish ...

Chief economist update: Look ma, inflation ate my wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
"Wage growth in Australia has grown at an annual rate of 2.1%, continuing to stabilise between 2-2.1% over the past four quarters." That's the positive spin from ABS chief economist Bruce Hockman. Not necessarily negative - wages are still growing ...

AFIC appoints chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
Australia's oldest listed investment company is seeing a change of guard in its corporate governance as the current chair retires after 34 years on the board. Terrence Campbell will not seek re-election at the October 9 annual general meeting of the ...

Super fees outpace asset growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
The rate at which superannuation funds slug members fees is growing faster than the underlying assets being managed, latest research shows. Rainmaker Information's March quarter Benchmarking report shows members paid a total of $32 billion in super ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
The Serious and Financial Crimes Taskforce has helped put two men behind bars for laundering money and evading tax. Anthony Castagna and Robert Agius, both from New South Wales, were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment each. The pair used an ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
"...the next move in the OCR could be up or down". This was a fair enough hedged bet from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) - more like the oft-repeated statements from other central banks saying "the risks are evenly balanced" - but Governor Adrian ...

MLC MySuper investment budget was tight-fisted: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
NULIS Nominees resisted increasing its spend on investment management, despite opinions from its super fund portfolio manager and asset consultant that its current investment fee budget wasn't adequate to boost the performance of its lagging MLC ...

Farmers should urgently access super: Advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Financial planners can help embattled farmers in drought stricken areas to urgently access their superannuation by lobbying the Federal Government for changes to super hardship policy. Certified Financial Planners Julie Matheson and Peter Roan are proposing ...