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AMP Capital names executive switch

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
AMP Capital's joint chief financial officer and chief operating officer has left the company and a successor has been appointed. Margaret Payn, who has worked with AMP Capital for five years, will relocate to the UK for family reasons. John Patrick ...

ANZ Wealth tests AI-driven underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
ANZ Wealth is exploring artificial intelligence opportunities to improve its underwriting processes. The collaboration with the Advanced Analytics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS AAi) will use machine learning and big data to develop ...

ASIC bans ex-CBA adviser for five years

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
ASIC banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser from providing financial services for five years. ASIC found Kimberley Holgate advised clients to rollover their existing superannuation account to a new product issued by CBA's subsidiary ...

Alternative beta corresponds with adviser risk concerns

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
An international quantitative investment manager with growing operations in Australia believes alternative investment strategies match the ongoing concerns investors and advisers hold around risk. Capital Fund Management head of Asia Pacific, Steve ...

J.P. Morgan wins global fixed income mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's unconstrained global fixed income strategy has received a key investment from an Australian boutique multi-manager. Alpha Fund Managers invested in the JPMorgan Global Bond Opportunities Fund with a view to "enhancing ...

AMP Capital adds key social infrastructure asset

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
AMP Capital acquired a 21% stake in a $1 billion dedicated cancer research and treatment facility on behalf of investors in its Community Infrastructure Fund. The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) operates as a public-private partnership ...

AMP Capital confirms expanded multi asset group role

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
A promotion among AMP Capital's multi asset group saw it expand one of its key leadership positions in 2017, creating the new role of head of market solutions and business management. Song Hong entered the new role in September 2017. Prior to his appointment ...

SMSFs grappling with super changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
Six months after the superannuation changes were put in place, self-managed superannuation fund members (SMSF) are still struggling with the complexities of the reforms, the head of the SMSF Association says. Chief executive John Maroney said SMSF members ...

Adviser banned over theft from deceased estate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
A former authorised representative of Futuro Financial Services that transferred about $300,000 to himself from a deceased estate has been permanently banned by the corporate regulator. ASIC has permanently banned Robert Pryor Smith of South Australia's ...

VFMC appoints former Franklin Templeton MD

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
Former managing director and chair of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia, Maria Wilton, is joining the board of Victorian Funds Management Corporation. VFMC chair James MacKenzie announced the appointment yesterday and said Wilton would deepen ...