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Pension fund giant mandates Fidelity

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... passive domestic equities. The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) appointed FIL Investments Japan and Resona Bank on December 26. Both will manage passive strategies to invest in Japanese equities, benchmarked to the TOPIX. Fidelity declined to ...

BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... help people develop better investing habits by regularly engaging with their retirement assets. The project, launched in December last year, will see Microsoft's expertise in technology combine with BlackRock's investment capabilities in the pursuit ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... Batten's team snagged a spot on ACORD's list of the top leaders in insurtech for 2018 for the re-released product, on December 18. The insurer is the only Australian company to make the list compiled by the Association of Cooperative Operations ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... the Aussie share market will grow 0.3% in the next 12 months. Investment Trends research director Recep Peker said the December quarter of 2018 was the most bearish quarter since the GFC, with the average investor expecting no capital gains from domestic ...

Blue Sky appoints CFO

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... retirement), construction, agriculture, investment banking and the funds management sector," Blue Sky said in company filings on December 24. Walker holds an MBA from the University of Queensland, is a chartered accountant and a member of the Australian ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... economic growth remains strong - evidenced by the sharply stronger-than-expected jump in non-farm payrolls (up 312,000 in December versus consensus predictions for a 180,000 gain). While this appears to be an aberration, the fact remains the US labour ...

ASIC and Westpac court battle sees mixed outcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 JAN 2019
... meaning it was in contravention of section 912A(1)(a) of the Corporations Act 2001. The judgment was handed down on 21 December 2018. It came about two years to the day ASIC first brought civil proceedings against the Westpac subsidiaries. The parties ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... managers and ones with a range of solutions. He added each of these strategies is actively managed and ESG aware. At a December 2018 media briefing in Sydney, Ausbil head of ESG research Mans Carlsson-Sweeny said the asset manager can capture ESG risk ...

IOOF appoints independent reviewer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... role will be to report on IOOF's progress as it attempts to address governance issues raised publicly by APRA on 7 December 2018. On top of the reviewer's quarterly reporting, both APRA and IOOF have also agreed to meet monthly. The regulator ...

HSBC appoints wealth leader

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... state manager Jessica Power will lead the global bank's retail banking and wealth management arm in Australia from December this year, but her appointment doesn't signal an intention for the firm to relaunch traditional wealth management products ...