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Industry fund takes aim at asset manager diversity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... ensure our investment managers, and by extension our members, are benefiting from this diversity," Blakey said. "Historically, the investment management industry has an under-representation of women. Given the number of women in our society, it's crucial ...

KPMG sells $2bn super admin business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... profitable business in its own right, and one of the few remaining niche providers in a consolidating market. While it has historically formed part of the broader Australian KPMG network, changing market dynamics make it more suited for growth with a ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... consequences for money managers in 2018. The Reserve Bank of Australia is also expected to begin stepping back from historically low interest rates, though economist Saul Eslake predicts: "The RBA will be a laggard, not a leader." Eslake says it's difficult ...

HNWI growth outpacing super: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... SMSF sector, but half the investment capital of the country's entire superannuation system. Wealth managers have historically tried to court the HNWI sector, with mixed results. A 2017 Capgemini report revealed that only 21% of the above $1.2 trillion ...

Alternative beta corresponds with adviser risk concerns

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... seek to identify and exploit risk premia via a rules-based, quantitative approach. "They are strategies which have historically been associated with hedge funds, which aim to produce 'absolute returns' - in other words, performance in all market conditions ...

Banks feeling heat as MiFID II looms: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... pay for research, they're going to start paying for research "they actually feel is value for money." He noted that historically 60 to 70% of research revenue has gone to the world's top six to 10 banks. "You can't really say they're provided the best-in-the-world ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... and valuation measures of debt and other markets appear notably extended." Measures of stock market volatility are historically low. We have now gone 12 months without a 3% correction in the US market. This is extraordinarily unusual. While household ...

Active the best way forward for super: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Australian institutional investors, particularly super funds, have been the beneficiary of active investment managers historically delivering consistent performance. Peterson points to the idea that investment rankings are largely predictable, especially ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
Shareholders attempting to take the Commonwealth Bank to the Federal Court for historically failing to disclose climate change risks in its annual reports have withdrawn the claim. Legal correspondence between social justice group Environmental Justice ...

Lack of expertise driving down competition: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... decade," APRA said. In referring to its plans to change the licensing framework for new entrants - which APRA said was historically a "regulatory barrier to entry for some small and innovative firms" - the regulator emphasised a need to accommodate new ...