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Government opens doors to offshore investment vehicles

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
The Federal Government is seeking public consultation on the long-awaited legislation for the Asia Region Funds Passport and Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle (CCIV) regime. The exposure draft legislation for the Asia Region Funds Passport explains ...

Advice group inks deal with $7bn super fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
An advice association has finalised a referral arrangement with a $7.6 billion super fund. Under the new arrangement, Tasplan will provide qualified advice referrals for members in mainland Australia via the Association of Independently Owned Financial ...

Macquarie team joins Shaw and Partners

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Shaw and Partners is bringing over a team of seven from Macquarie Private Wealth to manage a new Canberra office. Stephen Johnson will lead the new Canberra team along with fellow Macquarie veterans Rod Sutherland, Tom Kenyon, Penny Ponder, Neil Robertson ...

AMP improves life insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Newly-launched improvements to AMP's life insurance offering are aiming to give advisers and customers greater flexibility and choice. To ensure customers' cover stays contemporary, AMP director of insurance proposition Greg Johnson said options can ...

Vanguard appoints new head of investments

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Vanguard is reshuffling its Asia-Pacific investment team, appointing a new head of investments in the process. Daniel Reyes, currently heading up Vanguard's US advised portfolio solutions team, will take on the role. He replaces Rodney Comegys, who ...

Vanguard reduces fees, revises multi-asset strategy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Vanguard Australia will slash fees across its multi-asset suite and revise the funds' strategic asset allocation for the first time since 2013. From July, five wholesale diversified funds will have management expense ratios reduced to 0.29%. These funds ...

MainstreamBPO chief steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
A new chief executive for MainstreamBPO was named yesterday after longstanding chief executive and co-founder Byram Johnston stepped down effective immediately. Johnston indicated his desire to move away from the day-to-day management of the company. ...

Decimal expands superannuation network

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
ASX-listed Decimal Software has partnered with management consultancy firm Sequential to provide robo-advice solutions to superannuation fund clients. Under the memorandum of understanding, Decimal's Eqilize solution will offer superannuation providers ...

Fund manager appoints new COO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
Aurora Funds Management, currently embroiled in an ASIC dispute over its voting power in Molopo Energy, has appointed a new chief operating officer. Ben Norman, previously a director in EY's transaction advisory services business, will take on the role ...

Investment manager appoints head of machine learning

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of Man Group, is expanding its machine learning capabilities with the creation of a new role. William Ferreira joins the firm as head of machine learning, and will be responsible for providing ...