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Global regulation hub launched for asset managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
A European law firm is rolling out a new service for asset managers, providing up-to-date legal and regulatory requirements for distributing funds across jurisdictions. Tech-driven, financial services law firm Zeidler Legal Services has launched the ...

Willis Towers Watson bolsters senior management

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
Willis Towers Watson is expanding its local senior management with the appointment of a former Funds SA portfolio manager. Fresh from an 11-year career with Funds SA, Simon James has linked with the global consulting firm as its new Australian head ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
Parametric has teamed up with a California-based smart beta and asset allocation specialist to deliver a strategy for Australian institutional investors aiming to top the standard 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative ...

TAL to boost adviser underwriting knowledge

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
A new underwriting education initiative from TAL will help advisers and clients better understand the underwriting process. TAL launched the education initiative to increase transparency in the underwriting process, and said the initiative would provide ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Most equity market investors are concerned but not yet alarmed at Trump's protectionist policies. This could be because the financial media is calling it a trade dispute, a trade spat and not a trade war (or is it because of the markets' relatively ...

CBA to demerge CFS, mulls further CommInsure sell-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank is demerging its wealth management business and undertaking a strategic review of its general insurance arm. Standing as a separately listed wealth management business, CFS Group will comprise Colonial First State, Colonial First State ...

Sequoia sells direct equities business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Sequoia Financial Group noted the sale of its direct equities business in a market update. Sequoia said it was selling Sequoia Direct as part of a "simplication of its overall operation by reducing the number of AFSLs operated within the Sequoia group." ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
"In the current circumstances, members agreed that it was more likely that the next move in the cash rate would be up, rather than down." Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe declared this in many of his recent speeches, the statement was ...

Age pension application difficult: Report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
Difficulties in applying for the Age Pension headline a Retirement Essentials report about the challenges confronting older Australians dealing with Centrelink. The report - produced by National Seniors Australia and commissioned by Retirement Essentials ...

TAL veterans launch new life insurance provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
A group of former TAL executives have launched a new distributor of life insurance products backed by a global reinsurer. NEOS Life aims to distribute through the financial adviser market and offers life, total and permanent disability, critical illness ...