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Global manager sells distribution platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
An investment management firm with €830.8billion ($1.3 trillion) in assets under management has entered negotiations to sell its fund distribution platform. Natixis Investment Managers have started exclusive negotiations with global fund distribution ...

Sales director moves from Legg Mason

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... complexity and global nature of investment portfolios, recognising that these factors placed additional demands on institutional investors. IFM regional head of debt investments for Asia Pacific, Scott Barker, said the responsibilities of Nunan would ...

AI comes to SMSF administration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
An artificial intelligence assistant has been integrated into the SMSF software solution used to administer more than 70% of the 600,000 self-managed super funds in Australia. In a reported first for SMSF administration software, BGL has integrated ...

New manager raising $30m for crypto fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... that 20% is "very viable, but we have the potential to be doing 100% over the next few years." "There's a lot of institutional money coming into the space. Wall St, hedge funds, family offices - they're all starting to warm up to the reality that this ...

Insto licensees still bleeding talent

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
The number of advisers using non-institutional licensees increased by 11.9% in the 12 months to December 2017, while institutionally-owned licensees saw adviser numbers fall by 4.4%. A new Rainmaker report explains that the number of registered advisers ...

Industry welcomes final Better Banking report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
The final report of a two year reform program has outlined the progress made by Australia's banks in implementing the Better Banking Reforms Program. Handing down the report, independent governance expert Ian McPhee said commitment to the package of ...

Why wait for Royal Commission to address trust?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
A financial services industry group said its latest consumer research shows Australians care less about Royal Commission findings and are more concerned about professional standards. The Financial Services Institute of Australasia's (FINSIA) latest ...

CFSGAM prepares IPO, names board candidates

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... offices in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. As at 31 December 2017, CFSGAM managed $219 billion of assets on behalf of institutional investors, pension funds, wholesale distributors, investment platforms, financial advisers and their clients worldwid ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... no monthly fees and without expensive legacy hardware. The product is aimed at professional traders and smaller institutional investors, according to Saxo Capital Markets Australia chief executive Ben Smoker. "With SaxoTraderPRO, we are aiming to provide ...

Blue Sky falls short of disclosure expectations

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... the expectation that the company will now be constrained from completing new investments outside of unallocated institutional mandates. Kain said that Blue Sky is "committed to making changes which will improve the business, provide greater transparency ...