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BetaShares goes global with third managed risk product

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
BetaShares has expanded its managed risk product series with the launch of the BetaShares Managed Risk Global Share Fund, which is trading under the ASX code "WRLD". The fund is designed to provide exposure to a broadly diversified portfolio of global ...

ACSI and TIAA-CREF drive poll voting

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
About three quarters of ASX200 companies now use poll voting at their annual general meetings according to the latest data from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). In addition, ACSI said less than 10% of ASX100 companies still ...

MetLife reports 2015 earnings slump

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... billion). MetLife's report attributed this to "a strong US dollar, lower variable investment income and a previously announced third-quarter 2015 non-cash charge of US$792 million related to the tax treatment of a wholly-owned UK investment subsidiary." ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... that more Americans are re-joining the workforce - the participation rate increased to 62.7% from 62.6% in December - the third consecutive month of improvement. An increase in the average work week from 34.5 hours to 34.6 hours also augurs well for ...

DomaCom raises $8m in pre-IPO capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Investment platform operator DomaCom plans to publicly list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in the third quarter of 2016 after collecting $8 million in a pre-IPO capital raising. DomaCom, owner of Australia's first regulated fractional property ...

Healthcare needs flagged as investment opportunity

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... from mining and it's not coming from construction. On construction it appears to be the same people moving around. "About a third of employment growth in recent years has come from health care and another chunk from education." Toth acknowledged the ...

AdviserLogic launches updated platform

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... and building relationships." This follows on from AdviserLogic recently releasing its API so as to allow integration with third-party applications. "What we have created is an open system. Users can now send a message to our server which sends data back ...

Financial Synergy makes big play in big data

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... capability to deliver near real time insights on members - something OpenText can do. According to Financial Synergy, about one-third of an organisation's transactional data is currently being analysed. The remaining two-thirds of transactional data ...

Members should vote for super fund directors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... voice. Yet at the moment, members of most funds have no say in who represents their interests. That is currently decided by third parties." The Institute has submitted to the Bernie Fraser-led review of governance arrangements at not-for-profit super ...

Lifecycle funds startlingly varied

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... retirement; are allowed to opt as the default MySuper option. The analysis found that life cycle funds represent around a third of all MySuper funds under management (which themselves represent around a third of assets in all APRA-regulated funds) and ...