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WTW launches insto platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Willis Towers Watson has launched a platform that aims to clean up operational complexities facing investment managers and disrupt the world of institutional investing. The Asset Management Exchange or 'AMX' provides a centralised back-office and standardised ...

We must lead by example: Loane

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
Business leaders in the financial services sector must reflect and ask themselves whether they're setting a good example in striving toward gender parity in the superannuation system. Addressing the inaugural Women, Super & Wealth Summit hosted by the ...

Factor investing must be long-term: Vanguard

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
Vanguard believes investors would be better off considering the characteristics of a certain factor and its addition to portfolio performance rather than purely targeting outperformance through factor-based funds. The fund manager's latest research ...

Banks must overhaul product-based incentives

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Retail banking practices don't carry "significant systemic risks" that deliver poor customer outcomes, an independent review has found. Some current practices however, are promoting unacceptable behaviours inconsistent with good customer outcomes and ...

WAM Capital buys unlisted company

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Listed investment company WAM Capital, managed by Wilson Asset Management, is acquiring an unlisted investment company with net assets worth $25.5 million. It will issue 13,246,376 new shares under the terms of the deal on or before 19 April, calculated ...

Fitzpatricks strengthens Victorian advice presence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Fitzpatricks Private Wealth is continuing its expansion with the addition of two Melbourne advice practices. Chronos Private and Marasea Partners have aligned with Fitzpatricks, following a line of firms to come under its licence in the past 12 months. ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Li starts to get what he likes... and then some. Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang's 6.5% growth target for this year is tracking well (surprise, surprise) - with a buffer to boot - as China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
The total assets under management held in sovereign wealth funds globally levelled over the past two years, seeing growth of 1% between March 2016 and March 2017. The 2017 Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund Review found assets grew to US$6.59 trillion from ...

Morningstar downgrades Franklin Templeton parent rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Morningstar has downgraded its parent pillar assessment for Franklin Templeton US funds from positive to neutral following concerns about "massive outflows" and an "investment culture given to complacency," according to senior analyst Alec Lucas. The ...

Vanguard appoints three distribution heads

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Vanguard internally appointed three new heads of its distribution team. Matt Willis has become head of institutional, having previously been national sales manager - adviser, regional sales manager - northern, and business development manager. Rebecca ...