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Patersons launches first SMAs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
Patersons Securities has launched its first separately managed account offerings. The stockbroking and wealth management firm released two SMA models this week. The models had previously been run by Patersons as in-house model portfolios. It is the ...

Legalsuper expands member service capability

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
Legalsuper is growing its member service team with two appointments: a client service manager and data analyst. Long Nguyen serves as a client service manager, the fund's 10th member-facing appointment in less than three years. Nguyen has 13 years' ...

The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
What value does an independent board of directors add to an investment company? That's a question that directors of top UK investment companies met to answer yesterday. At a conference organised by 86-year old Association of Investment Companies (AIC) ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

ANZ and Macquarie fined for cartel conduct

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
The Federal Court granted ANZ and Macquarie's wishes to pay fines totaling $15 million for attempted cartel conduct in 2011. As suggested to the court, ANZ will pay $9 million - admitting it engaged in 10 instances of attempted cartel conduct in contravention ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Many pension funds and insurance companies around the world are staring insolvency in the face unless they adopt measures that address an imbalance between assets and liabilities. This is the view of OECD director financial and enterprise affairs, and ...

Wilson HTM shareholders approve acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... head the capital markets division. This is the last step of a process that has seen ASX-listed Wilson HTM Investment Group (WIG) transfer its shareholdings in the securities business to a new corporate vehicle known as Wilson HTM Securities and Advisory. ...

Ball rolling in Wilson HTM spin-off deal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Deutsche Bank and Craigs Investment Partners before the year is out. Under the proposed deal, Wilson HTM Investment Group (WIG) will transfer its shareholdings in the Securities business to a new corporate vehicle known as Wilson HTM Securities and Advisory ...

Wilson HTM reveals details of business transformation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
Wilson HTM (WIG) directors have revealed some of the details of the transformation process that the business is going through, including the establishment of a standalone securities business and significant changes to the board of directors. Chairman ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
In July last year Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley stood alongside Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden and announced that the two wings of superannuation would be burying the hatchet. They wouldn't ...