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Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... divest its life insurance and wealth protection business, in a $3.3 billion sale that attracted the ire of shareholders. The ASX was forced to intervene, and ruled the under-fire wealth manager did not require the approval of shareholders to sell its ...

Praemium renews Asgard contract

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... both businesses have agreed to extend the relationship for up to another six years, with a minimum three-year period. In an ASX statement Praemium said the contract retains a minimum value of $3 million per year. Other contracts Praemium has secured ...

Raiz expands offshore

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
Raiz Invest received the green light to distribute products across south-east Asia. The ASX-listed firm announced it secured a licence to distribute mutual funds via subsidiary PT Raiz Invest Indonesia. Managing director George Lucas said Raiz has progressed ...

Portfolio implementation delays costing investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... December 2016, Lonsec showed that implementing the changes with no delay resulted in an excess return of 1.3% about the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index benchmark to March 2018. In comparison, a six-month delay would return an excess of 0.2%. If there ...

Link hires former State Street MD

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... $50 billion of funds under administration. The division Link Fund Solutions is part of the corporate markets division at the ASX-listed Link Group. Corporate markets connects issuers with stakeholders and provides services including shareholder management ...

Former Paradice managers launch LIT

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... has delivered 20.2% per annum (after fee) since its August 2015 inception to October end. On Wednesday it will list on the ASX as a LIT under the ticker OPH - without raising any additional capital -- in a move that senior portfolio manager and co-founder ...

$200k on the life-line for new Freedom chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... chief executive of Freedom on 14 December. The life insurance distributer today confirmed Williamson's remuneration to the ASX, which is a fixed remuneration package of $400,000 comprising base salary and superannuation. He stands to pick up an extra ...

CFS swaps global equities managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... to demerge from CBA alongside Count Financial, Financial Wisdom, Aussie Home Loans and CBA's minority shareholdings in ASX-listed CountPlus and Mortgage Choice - together termed as "Newco." SocietyOne managing director and chief executive Jason Yetton ...

Super admin provider adds chief information officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The director of Westpac's security risk and culture program has joined an ASX-listed provider of superannuation administration and trustee services. Anne Coull has been appointed chief information officer at OneVue. The group said the appointment reflects ...

Bentham AM launches mFund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... raising capital. For example, a financial planner might set up mFunds to access the fund. Bentham is a founding member of the ASX mFunds. It now has four of its five funds on the ASX mFunds system but the capital raised through the channel has been small. ...