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Australia's first active fixed income ETF goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
A Legg Mason affiliate has become the first to offer an actively-managed fixed income fund as an exchange-traded fund in Australia. Ringing the bell at the ASX in Sydney yesterday, Western Asset Management portfolio manager Anthony Kirkham listed the ...

Link, CBA ink $1.6bn PEXA deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
A consortium comprising Link Group and Australia's biggest bank will acquire Property Exchange Australia (PEXA) for $1.6 billion. Last month Link Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners made an offer to acquire ...

An insight into AFCA workload

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The latest quarterly statistics from the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal give a small insight into the workload that will face the Australian Financial Complaints Authority come Thursday. Closing to new complaints tomorrow, the Superannuation Complaints ...

Superannuation ripe for blockchain

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... multiple parties, so there's an opportunity there, she adds. Lusty's comments come as financial services leaders gear up for the annual Sibos conference from October 22 to 25 in Sydney. The conference will see Australia's big four banks and ...

The top-performing ETFs in September are...

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... ASX and Morningstar. VanEck also looked at the worst ETF performers of the month. BetaShares Geared Australian Equity Fund (GEAR) fell the most in September, delivering close to -4%. Small caps ETFs from iShares and VanEck vectors (IJR, MVS) also dropped ...

Former Mercer director joins MGP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
Managed Account Holdings has added a superannuation law expert to its board as it gears up to acquire an existing Registrable Superannuation Entity. Most recently the director of Mercer's boutique legal practice Mercer Legal, Pamela McAlister has ...

Aussie super asset allocation "riskier": Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
UBS Asset Management's latest pension fund indicator report highlights the propensity of Australian superannuation funds to invest a substantial portion of retirement savings in "risker" assets such as equities. According to the report, the asset ...

AI to transform financial services: Deloitte

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform the realities of financial institutions, according to a new research report. According to Deloitte and the World Economic Forum, AI will radically change front and back-office operations, and create major ...

Vicinity Centres partners for $1bn wholesale property fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The property giant is launching a new wholesale fund in a 50:50 joint venture with a Singapore-based asset manager. Vicinity Centres will take $1 billion worth of shopping centres off its balance sheets and use them to seed a new wholesale fund in the ...

Leading philanthropic couple honoured

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
One of Australia's leading philanthropic couples received the top honour at the 2018 Philanthropic Awards. Nicola and Andrew Forrest were recognised as Philanthropy Leaders of the Year at Philanthropy Australia's annual awards night held at ...