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CSC announces three new directors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation board is working with three new non-executive directors this week following the term expiry of directors John McCullagh, Michael Vertigan and Peter Feltham. CSC chair Patricia Cross said beginning 1 July 2016 ...

Asset manager launches quant platform after acquisition

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... diversification and long-term growth. In Cantab we are acquiring industry-leading intellectual capital, a highly distinguished decade-long investment performance track record, and a profitable and scalable business. In combination with GAM's global distribution ...

Report finds fresh barriers to funds management exports

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... 2014 found that if Australia could grow overseas-sourced funds under management equal to that of Hong Kong over the next decade, national GDP would grow by more than $4.2 billion, tax revenue would increase by $1.2 billion and nearly 10,000 jobs would ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... Netherlands and France will elect their leaders in 2017. Will Angela Merkel, the glue that has held Europe together for the past decade, retain her position to lead the continent through its next challenge? Or will populism and nationalism splinter the ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... in China; whether emerging markets or developed markets will outperform; the impact of secular stagnation over the next decade; and how the Australian economy is transitioning from the mining boom. Tan said cash and bond markets had already priced in ...

Objectives-based investing under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
Assets in Australian objectives-based managed funds have quadrupled over the last decade to about $10 billion yet risk and return outcomes are not necessarily living up to expectations. Investment researcher Morningstar says in a new white paper that ...

New wave of retirees to challenge advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
The new wave of baby boomer retirees is set to dramatically change the direction of financial advice, argues industry consultant John Wiseman. According to Wiseman, advisers will be faced with a number of challenges as they search for solutions that ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
By his own admission, Colin Kelton barely understood what Vanguard did when he applied for a job at the company. But 25 years on he's now principal and managing director of the Australian operations of the $4.4 trillion asset manager, and he can't imagine ...

Family office patriarchs need to know when to let go

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Family offices benefit in the long run when a leader learns how to transition over to the next generation, according to Mutual Trust client services director Brad Simmons. In an "open letter to the family patriarch," Simmons noted the difficulty some ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Australian institutional investors have not achieved optimal exposure to emerging market debt over the past decade because they have depended on broad global bond strategies which have tended to avoid economies which are unduly perceived as very risky. ...