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Macquarie pays the price for poor advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
Macquarie Equities has shelled out almost $25 million in compensation in the past three years as part of its enforceable undertaking with ASIC. The corporate regulator published an update yesterday as to the remediation program's status, saying it is ...

AMP Capital names key real assets hires

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... global listed real estate team, and will oversee assets in the UK, Germany, Spain and Scandinavia. Reiff was previously an equities analyst at Deutsche Bank. Both Jones and Reiff will be based in AMP Capital's London offices. "We are delighted to welcome ...

ASIC bans former Westpac adviser

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... Westpac, CBA, ANZ, Macquarie and AMP). ASIC has also penalised Synergy Financial Markets, a Sydney-based firm which trades equities and derivatives through two managed discretionary accounts for making false or misleading statements. According to the ...

Weaker returns for SMSFs: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... relative returns," Rainmaker said. The SMSF index had higher weightings in cash and property, and a lower allocation to equities compared to MySuper products (39% versus 53%). Returns for both strategies was more than 10% for the year - about four times ...

VicSuper launches ESG member option

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... genetically modified organisms; and companies that have involvements in "severe incidents and/or controversies." The equities portion of this investment option is based on a custom index derived from the MSCI Global Fossil Fuels Exclusion Index and the ...

Hunter Hall funds and LIC receive makeover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
The investment strategies for Hunter Hall's international equities funds will be updated following its merger with Pengana Capital, while the Hunter Hall Global Value board has also received a shakeup. Maintaining the current ethical screens in their ...

ETP demand grows, fees stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... structure," it said. In the 12 months to March, ETP FUM rose 28% to $27 billion, with a marked shift to international equities and fixed interest asset classes. International equity ETPs were the most active during the period with 72 products launched ...

ANZ Wealth adds SMAs to platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... move, ANZ Wealth will introduce 13 new Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) to professionally managed portfolios of direct equities and exchange traded funds. ANZ Wealth head of wrap Dean Faglioni said: "This latest enhancement to our wrap platform responds ...

Fund manager sells all shares ahead of crash

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... now. I would like to make clear this is not a winding up of Altair, but a decision to hand back client monies out of equities which I deem to be far too risky at this point," Parker said. Parker said that Altair had also handed back hundreds of millions ...

Cuffe partners with EGP Capital

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
Boutique equities investment manager EGP Capital enlisted Chris Cuffe to help launch a new fund. Industry veteran Cuffe joined EGP Capital's board to establish the EGP Concentrated Value Fund due to launch in August. The fund aims to raise up to $50 ...