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AMP Capital bids farewell to active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... December 4, with final distributions from the wind up set for December 31. "...the decision to terminate the funds follows mutual acknowledgement by BetaShares and...AMP Capital that funds have not achieved sufficient scale since inception," the two ...

Life insurers recognised for innovation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... Protection). The new Debt Insurance Award went to MLC Life (Debt Insurance) and new Tailored Medical Sector Award went to Avant Mutual (Life and TPD Cover). Plan For Life regional managing director Rael Solomon said during 2020, the leading life insurers ...

Boutique hires from MLC Asset Management

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... competitive edge in the market." SG Hiscock has been around since 2001, when its key investment management team left National Mutual. It has been doing retail distribution in-house since 2016. In 2019, it merged with discretionary portfolio manager DMP ...

Carlyle buys into Calastone, ups Link bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... great strides in the past decade to meet the needs of customers and investors in reducing friction and costs within the mutual fund industry. "Our business has grown from strength to strength and has created the Distributed Market Infrastructure (DMI) ...

Global firm hires local distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... head of institutional business at Janus Henderson, a role he's held for the past six years after joining from Investors Mutual. Federated Hermes said Horton will be responsible for raising third party assets and delivering new business targets across ...

VFMC chief joins ING board

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... treasurer. She studied town planning at university and started her career in financial services as an analyst at National Mutual. ING's board is chaired by John Laker, who spent a decade as the chair of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

MLC appoints new head of insto distribution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... the organisation. Price was previously based in the US, before joining Fisher he worked at Merrill Lynch and at Liberty Mutual Insurance. "We are pleased to welcome Mr Price to MLC," MLC general manager asset management distribution Mandy Mannix said. ...

Robeco extends exclusions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
Robeco announced it will now exclude investments in thermal coal, oil sands and Arctic drilling from all its mutual funds. The manager said the decision is an important step in its sustainable investing approach. Companies that derive 25% or more of ...

Masterfund assets decline

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... recovered the losses instigated by the global pandemic, the latest Plan For Life data show. The sector, which comprises mutual funds on wraps, platforms and master trusts, reached $824.3 billion for the period, according to actuary and research firm ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... category included Perpetual's Industrial Share Fund (0.6% p.a.), Prime Value Growth Fund (-0.7% p.a.) and Investors Mutual All Industrials Share Fund (-2.9% p.a.). Lakehouse Small Companies Fund was a clear outperformer in the Australian equities ...