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NGS Super hires brand, digital manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
NGS Super has joined the ranks of super funds who want to grow their online presence and has hired a brand and digital strategy manager. Loyce Cox-Paton will be the fund's senior manager of brand and digital and will be in charge of member engagement ...

Insto investor acquires $236.6m US property

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
QIC has bought a $236.6 million (US$174.4 million) shopping centre on behalf of a major Australian institutional investor. The acquisition represents QIC's first 100% owned US property and it follows the investor's two-year US real estate joint venture ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Active managers targeting mum and dad investors have rushed to launch their funds as listed investment companies (LICs) on the ASX, but a growing number of professional investors think the key to retail is elsewhere. Lazard Asset Management managing ...

Link Group launches digital super card

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Link Group has launched a digital superannuation membership card designed for use on smartphones. The digital card is available to members immediately after they join online and it allows customers to access details of their super fund via their smartphone. ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Australia's love story with its own stocks might have run its course, with new figures showing that inflows into international equities exchange traded funds (ETFs) have outpaced their domestic counterparts. Inflows for Vanguard's international equity ...

Westpac insurance adviser gets permanent ban

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
A Westpac financial planner has been permanently banned for submitting false insurance policy proposals to the bank to obtain benefits for himself. Victoria-based adviser Martin Hodgetts submitted nine false insurance policies between May and September ...

Fiducian acquires second Sydney practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Fiducian Group has acquired a Sydney-based financial planning business, its second acquisition in one month. Fiducian paid $2.4 million in cash and shares and the financial planners will relocate into the group's premises. The acquisition brings an ...

BlackRock boosts iShares sales team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
BlackRock has hired two experienced sales strategists to its iShares business team in Australia to focus on adviser relations. Joshua Persky has been appointed to the newly created role of sales strategist for model portfolios and solutions. Persky ...

Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Pressure to lower fees is forcing superannuation funds to look for new ways to deliver returns at a low cost and some are starting to think the solution might be in smart beta. Head of HSBC Global Asset Management in Australia, Geoffrey Pidgeon, told ...

Macquarie advisers defect to start independent firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Four senior executives and financial planners from Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW) have left the group to start their own non-aligned boutique advice firm. Jeffrey Wrightson, Stephen Thaxter, Chris Forrest and Nina Kazmierczak have set up Sovereign Wealth ...