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APRA tells super funds to improve conflict of interest management

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... licensees handle related party arrangements, despite citing improvements since the regulator's 2014 conflict of interest thematic review. The regulator highlighted a need to ensure related party contracts had a set period and clear termination provisions ...

APRA urges super funds to examine board skills

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... role. The regulator sent all registrable superannuation entities (RSEs) a letter this week outlining the findings of its thematic review into super fund board governance practices. APRA said the review focused on board composition, appointment and renewal ...

Thematic SMAs on the rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
A thematic international investment house partnered with a $110 billion platform to provide access to several separately managed accounts. Praemium has added three themed global share portfolios from Macrovue; the Macroevue Car of the Future Concentrated ...

ASX gives timeline for CHESS replacement

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... system is being developed by New York-based tech company Digital Asset which has in the past captured the interest of thematic and disruptive technology investors. In December last year, ASX deputy chief executive Peter Hiom said the bourse will be the ...

ABDO unveils top investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
Absolute returns, value and global diversification are key thematics that must underscore clients' portfolios in a post-GFC world, according to investment experts speaking at this year's Financial Standard Advisers Big Day Out. Held at the Four Seasons ...

Global asset manager rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... with alternative solutions such private debt on real assets, while bolstering its equity investment expertise around thematic, small and mid-caps, and emerging funds. Paris-based Ostrum chief executive Matthieu Duncan said: "Our new brand name Ostrum ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Macrovue's latest offering in thematic investments will give investors exposure to 10 "high-conviction" 5G stocks spread across the world. "5G is a huge investment opportunity because we are going to see a huge structural change all across the world ...

BetaShares shareholder buys $13 billion fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
... Asset will provide access to the resources of a large global financial institution, enabling it to continue expanding its thematic, income and international ETF solutions and to broaden its distribution capabilities. "Mirae Asset has the client and employee-centric ...

Go your own way: AXA IM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. Tinker told delegates the momentum in 2018 for longer-term thematic trades has many looking at global growth and wanting to get involved in cyclical trends in search of value - forgetting that ...

Product agnostic planners boost ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... institutions - including investment banks - using ETFs, and not necessarily for passive purposes, but also as an active thematic position," Cerulli said. "These factors, combined with ETFs' relatively low attrition rate, make the space one to watch out ...