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BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... capabilities in the pursuit of a new platform which BlackRock will offer in connection with "next generation investment products" the firm will design and manage. BlackRock said its new products would be designed to provide US workers with a lifetime ...

Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... more people. Spaceship looks outside of superannuation Digital superannuation startup Spaceship launched two investment products in April, under the name Spaceship Voyager. The funds - one passive and one "actively selected" - were designed to satiate ...

Grandfathered commissions: Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... Commonwealth Bank began advocating for government intervention in removing grandfathered commissions for super and investment products. "We support the removal of grandfathered commissions from superannuation and investment products across the wider ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... performance benchmarking, as well as portfolio construction and rebalancing, and asset allocation. Index-linked investment products, such as ETFs and mutual funds, commonly pay MSCI a fee based on the value of the investment product's assets. Asset-based ...

KPMG hires from Macquarie

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... tax and legal division. For the last 12 years she worked across Macquarie's infrastructure and specialised investment products including five years in London. At MIRA, she had a particular focus on managing client relationships for domestic institutions ...

ETFs attracting more money than LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... after it first took off after the GFC. Product boom Managers from both sides have been active in launching new investment products this year. On the ETF side, international money manager Fidelity has thrown its hat in the ring, with an emerging market ...

Financial literacy critical to European retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... more than 8200 Europeans in March and April, found more than 80% of UK and Italian residents do not own any investment products. This was closely followed by Germany (79%). On average, about one quarter (23%) of respondents from each of the six regions ...

CBA to refund dead customers, grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... in January 2019. CBA is also advocating for government intervention in removing such payments on super and investment products. "We support the removal of grandfathered commissions from superannuation and investment products across the wider industry ...

Royal Commission interim report flawed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... the report, he said, is that any argument against the abolition of grandfathered commissions on super and investment products has been debunked. "The interim report doesn't just criticise grandfathered arrangements on superannuation and investment ...

BNP Paribas launches Aussie equities trust

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... equities and global emerging market equities, in addition to fixed income, multi-asset and infrastructure investment products.