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AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
In a bid to reduce the 20.4% discount on its China Growth Fund, AMP Capital has introduced key changes based on a review by Goldman Sachs. The changes include implementing a Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect trading platform to increase the fund's liquidity. ...

Turnbull expected to dust off shelved policies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... focus back on super taxes as a key part of the current Tax Review. Super is too important to be left out of the tax debate." AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver highlighted that Turnbull is "known as a Liberal Party moderate - less socially conservative- ...

Mercer selects customer management platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... workflow and team collaboration," Godfrey said. The deal comes on the back of several movements at PractiFI in 2015, including AMP practices adding the OmniLife research tool and the completion of a $1.3 million seed funding. PractiFI chief executive ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... insurance profiles in the report, and "maintaining their strong position in the standalone TPD field." Other winners included AMP for Term Life Insurance (along with TAL), OnePath for Trauma Insurance (also with TAL), Macquarie for Income Protection ...

Alphinity wins AMP Capital mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
AMP Capital has awarded holdings from its AMP Capital Fundamental Long Short Fund to Alphinity Investment Management's Alphinity Australian Share Fund. AMP Capital head of public market solutions Tanya Debakhapouve said this decision came about following ...

PractiFI expands with $1.3m seed funding

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... CRM, registry, policy administration, and telephony systems for financial advice practices. After announcing that several AMP practices had adopted the software, it added Omnium insurance research tool OmniLife to its suite of services. "PractiFI is ...

AMP loses risk lump sum market share

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
AMP lost risk lump sum market share to OnePath, TAL and others, according to Plan For Life research for the year to June 2015. Plan For Life's risk market report for the year ended June 2015 shows that overall inflows into the lump sum sub-market grew ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... Redford-Bell have been appointed at UBS Global Asset Management. - Implemented Portfolios appoints former Genesys chief A - Former AMP managing director of financial planning Greg Kirk has been appointed executive chair at Implemented Portfolios. - NAB ...

Implemented Portfolios appoints former Genesys chief

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... held chief executive roles at Genesys, Challenger Financial Planning, and was also managing director, financial planning at AMP. "The growth in our business over the last financial period has been extremely pleasing and as a business we continue to realise ...

Super law changes "political suicide"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... superannuation is a double-edged sword, with any changes to the system now considered "political suicide," according to former AMP senior executive - research and technical Rob Thomas. Speaking at the Financial Standard Technical Services Forum on September ...