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QV Equities posts solid year

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... objective is to provide long term capital growth and income through a diversified portfolio of ASX listed entities outside the top 20. Company chairman Peter McKillop said investment markets remain uncertain and volatile, however investors need to focus ...

UK IFAs increasingly outsourcing to DFMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... Invesco Perpetual and Standard Life achieved such a rating not only in alternatives and multi-asset respectively, but also won top five rankings across two asset classes. "The key to success in a competitive and increasingly challenging investment environment ...

NZSF gets top UN sustainability ratings

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment has given top marks to the NZ Super Fund. The sovereign wealth fund has received an A+ rating for responsible investment governance and strategy and either A or A+ ratings across all reported ...

SMSF trustees increasing use of planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
SMSF trustees are trending upwards in their use of financial planners for the first time since 2007 according to new research jointly released by Vanguard and Investment Trends. The firms' annual self-managed superannuation fund report, which collated ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... then develop a strategic plan for the next three to five years. He adds one of the great attributes about Qantas Super, on top of being part of an iconic Australian brand, is a clear member mandate. "The fund has employees that are very often here for ...

BUSSQ sees C-suite expansion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... categories in the SelectingSuper performance tables. According to the July Rainmaker Benchmarking report, BUSSQ placed on top for performance across the Workplace (MySuper default option), Personal (balanced), and Retirement (balanced) fund options over ...

CBA posts record profit despite dip from wealth division

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... ranked first or equal first in all key segments of business customer satisfaction at year end. Wealth Management regained the top spot for adviser satisfaction in April 2016 and the bank was also named Bank of the Year - Small Business by Canstar. "We ...

ASX blockchain move defensive: Professor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... organisation deserves credit for being aggressive because if this works out it will provide them a halo effect of being modern and on top of technology and attract listings. But in the end I think the motivation is here is fear and what they're doing ...

Antipodes to launch global equities LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... The portfolio of the company will be based on the Antipodes Global Fund, which was declared by Morningstar to be one of the top-performing global funds in the researcher's Australian Institutional Sector Survey for the year to 30 June 2016. It delivered ...

Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... manufacture the product," said Bruno Bertocci, a managing director at UBS Asset Management and lead portfolio manager of the top-performing Global Sustainable Equity strategy. He was in Victoria recently to present UBS's research into ESG metrics at ...