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NULIS names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... for the MLC Super Fund and products such as Plum, MasterKey Super, MasterKey and Wrap as a non-executive director in December 2017. He is also a member of the MasterKey and Plum investment committee, the risk and audit committee and the successor fund ...

Glennon Capital hires marketing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... 8.6% for the quarter. Glennon's listed absolute return portfolio CMI reported an annualised return of 6.65% as at December end. Michael Glennon founded the boutique in 2008 after working in senior investment leadership roles. He was a Paradice portfolio ...

MetLife revamps relationship management and underwriting teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... and disability underwriter with Fidelity Life in New Zealand. Fiona Quinn was appointed as senior retail underwriter in December 2017. She was manager of underwriting services and operations for Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia at AMP. ...

Boutique equities manager raising $4 million

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... is the head of investments and a director. James was Commsec's head of wholesale sales and an executive manager from December 2007 to June 2016. He was also CBA's head of adviser distribution, investor sales from June 2014 to June 2016. He said Seer ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... Financial Comfort Index dipped to a reading of 5.44 out of 10 over the six months to June from 5.49 in the same period in December 2017 and 5.51 in June last year. The index averaged 5.45 out of 10 since ME started the survey in October 2011, hitting ...

ASIC identifies potential risks in ETP market

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... rapidly, and currently sits at about $40 billion, as at July end according to Vanguard. It grew to $35.69 billion as at 31 December 2017 - an increase of 35.69% from $25.63 billion at 31 December 2016. However, the growth has come from a "fairly low ...

Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... between August 2015 and March 2016 before easing (but still remained positive). Further, a CNBC article quotes him back in December 2013 also pointing to the rise in core-core inflation "as evidence that inflation based on more sustainable local demand ...

Aussie instos buy ex-US value story

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... all-time highs, there are more than 150 securities in the S&P 500 whose share prices are down more than 20% since a peak in December 2017. "It's a simplification but if I take the US equity market and, for better or worse, use the S&P 500 as a representation ...

SPECIAL FEATURE: Breaking the custody mould

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... have about $3.5 trillion of assets under custody for Australian investors - an increase of 4.9% over the 12 months to 31 December 2017. J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas Securities Services and NAB Asset Servicing hold the top spots in terms of total assets under ...

AAT reduces former adviser's ban

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... falsely claimed he had held and completed courses related to a Diploma of Financial Planning. ASIC also found that in December 2014 Williams created false certifications of his claimed qualifications, and provided them to Financial Services Partners ...