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BetaShares launches Aussie bluechip ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
BetaShares is set to launch a strategy that invests in Australian companies deemed to be of high quality. The BetaShares Australian Quality ETF, with ticker code AQLT, comprises companies that have high return on equity, low leverage and relative earnings ...

TAL wins life company award for 2021

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
TAL has taken out the Association of Financial Advisers' 2021 Life Company of the Year Award for the fifth consecutive year. TAL also won the Overall Platinum and Income Protection categories. NEOS Life took home four awards for Service Quality, Trauma ...

AltX appoints head of property risk

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
The Sydney-based alternative investment platform adds Giamol Pasin to its team. Pasin has 30 years' experience in the property industry as a valuer of all classes of property related assets. Pasin has previously served as director of property risk for ...

Active funds continue underperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
S&P Dow Jones Indices SPIVA Australia Scorecard has revealed just over half of Australian equities funds beat their benchmarks last year, with active funds underperforming. Last year, just over half of Australian funds in the Equity General and Equity ...

PIMCO preps long-awaited LIT launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
In what will be more than two years after its launch was initially flagged, PIMCO's first local listed investment trust will begin trading on the ASX next month. Plans for the LIT were first announced in November 2019, with the fixed income giant anticipating ...

Super mergers only beginning: J.P. Morgan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
We've only seen the start of consolidation in superannuation, with mergers to accelerate, according to a new survey from J.P. Morgan. J.P. Morgan's inaugural Future of Superannuation Report interviewed 12 super fund leaders, who collectively manage ...

Macquarie AM goes after US HNWs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
... institutional portfolios, they have historically been hard to access for individual investors," Macquarie Asset Management group head Ben Way said. "Macquarie's long-standing heritage of managing alternative assets and serving the US individual investor ...

Principals' Community retains BT members

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
The newly independent Principals' Community has retained 92% of previous members after parting ways with BT Financial Group. The community, headed up Kon Costas, is a service for self-licensed financial advice businesses - offering support, education ...

Startup launches risk retention option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
A life insurance startup is launching an alternative option that targets customers who want to cancel their policy. iExtend partners with policyholders by paying the premiums of the co-owned cover. Policyholders are able to maintain their cover and ...

Perennial awards new fund admin mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
Perennial Partners has appointed Apex Group to deliver fund administration and transfer agency services to its new Private Ventures Fund. The Perennial Private Ventures Fund is targeting a raise of $200 million to invest in high growth private businesses ...