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PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy believes it is within most people's means to better understand and engage with their superannuation. It is this mantra that will help shape the corporate super fund. Every time Michael Clancy steps off a Qantas ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
Australian consumer confidence The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rebounded by 2.0% in August after declining by 3.0% in July. More importantly, at a reading of 101.4, optimists outnumbered pessimists this month. Not surprisingly ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... very least the ASX should use blockchain to improve its back office processing of trades because that alone would provide a big profit opportunity. NYU Stern School of Business professor David Yermack told a recent audience in Sydney that blockchain ...

ABA denies precedent for matching RBA cash rates

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... customers why they have not done so." Subsequently, Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison proposed an annual meeting with the big four banks at a House of Representatives standing committee on economics where the institutions would, in Turnbull's words ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... Magellan's top four holdings - Apple, Microsoft, Visa and Alphabet - are aimed at benefitting from advances in cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence; the move to a cashless society; and the share of global advertising spend moving online. ...

Indian LIC launches IPO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
Australia's first listed investment company with a sole and direct focus on India plans to raise up to $50 million during its IPO. The India Fund, to be managed by Kotak Mahindra, will have a brief to invest in listed Indian companies with strong business ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... infrastructure had taken off and Australia was seen as a leader in private markets. The thing that remained a constant was the big Australian equity bias." Bouch ended up in a serviced office in Sydney with one other person and was tasked with growing ...

Financial Standard to present at upcoming netwealth webinar

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... new technologies * Reasons the Self Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) sector will shape product development and innovation * Next big wave, the managed accounts pioneers (adviser case study) and global managed accounts trends You can register using the following ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... The fund is a diversified managed investment scheme and Rachcoff said "as gold skeptics we make no apologies." "And that's a big call coming from equities people. We have a meaningful allocation to physical gold bars. We love that they sit outside the ...

Former Calastone MD launches fintech solution

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... construction, rebalancing, compliance and reporting administration. Many of the processes involve manual administration which takes up big chunks of time without adding any value to the client. MA Operator automates the complete workflow inside one elegant ...