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Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
All of the liquid holdings of the world's second-largest reinsurer will be switched to track ethical indices by 2018. Since the beginning of the year, Swiss Re has been consistently integrating environmental, social and governance criteria into its ...

Private Portfolio Managers launch SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... clients. We are confident advisers will welcome the addition of the PPM SMAs," Carr said. PPM's flagship Australian Equities IMA is also available on both Powerwrap's super and non-super platform.

Old technology costing advice industry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
The majority financial advice firms are still choosing to rely on Microsoft Excel as their primary source of administrative software despite a range of financial software products coming to market, YTML said. According to the financial technology provider's ...

Advice industry must not rest on laurels: Diamantidis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
The financial advice industry has resigned itself to underperforming and allowed the public to relegate financial matters. Caboodle Financial Services' Peita Diamantidis believes the financial advice industry is failing for having only engaged 20% of ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." This is one of the immortal quotes from the 1939 classic movie, "Gone With the Wind" and, it appears, the same words China's financial markets gave to Moody's Investors Service when it downgraded China's long-term ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
The 29th of April 2017 marked the first 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn in as chief executive of America, Inc. "Donald, you're fired!" should be what Americans tell him if poll ratings are anything to go by. In her piece on al.com, Leada Gore ...

CBA spearheads push for quantum computing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
CBA is rolling out a simulation of a theoretical quantum computer to demonstrate how it could revolutionise banking and other industries. Unlike a traditional computer, where data is encoded into a binary system of zeroes and ones (bits), a quantum ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
It could have been triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. ...

CFS knuckles down on managed accounts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
Colonial First State is in the final stages of a major technology enhancement to its FirstWrap platform. Responding to feedback from financial advisers and their clients, CFS engaged global technology provider IRESS to launch a further suite of separately ...

Collective power: What's next for profit-to-member funds?

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
Industry super thought leaders have urged the sector to harness the power of the collective and collaborate more closely on problem solving to ensure longevity and continued member engagement. Speaking at the Mavis Robertson Plenary at the 2017 Conference ...