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Copia builds distribution team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... distribution manager for Victoria and Western Australia. Papakonstantinos has previously also worked at AMP as an investment research manager and at Equity Trustees as a key account manager in his 13-year-long career. Copia Investment Partners general ...

Responsible investing rises on advice agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... planners, found 34% now provide advice on responsible investing. This is up from 19% in the 2016 survey. Investment Trends research director Recep Peker said the rise speaks to a broader attraction in goals or objectives-based financial advice. In the ...

Schroders hires former Hunter Hall portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... Its Australian business is focused on institutional and wholesale clients. It has a team of 95 in Sydney, with domestic research and investment teams in Australian equities, fixed income and multi-asset and global equities.

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
The British Parliament has put a full stop to months of speculation over PM Theresa May's leadership when she emerged victorious - 200 to 117 - over her own party's (the Conservative Party) no confidence motion lodged against her. The Party's ...

Bentham AM launches mFund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... swelled from $10 million to $25 million making it the 10th largest player in the mFund space, according to Rainmaker Research. ASX's mFunds have been growing but remain small. They had a total of $758 million at September end, nearly double the year ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
When UK prime minister Theresa May declared that "Brexit is Brexit" and "no Brexit deal is better than a bad Brexit deal" when she addressed EU ambassadors in London on the 17 January 2017, she laid out 12 objectives for Brexit negotiations: 1. Clarity ...

Complainants most satisfied with life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... banking (27%), credit (21%) and general insurance (22%) similarly. Financial advice firms (12%) rated the lowest. The research also found that, in general, very few customers followed through with complaints. Only 8% of 3.2 million customers who considered ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
We got chills, they're multiplying... How could something so good turn out to be so bad? It was all very good just as 2017 was turning into 2018... so good, that financial markets were pencilling in exit strategies from the world's major economies ...

Insurer awards $80m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... world's best performing managers. "H2O has built a high-performance culture where ideas are generated through deep research and long track records of analysing investor behaviour, investing across regions and financial instruments," Watson said. ...

$300k makes advice worthwhile: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
Roy Morgan research suggests having a minimum of $300,000 triggers the need for financial advice. The survey of more than 50,000 consumers in the year to October reinforces that financial advisers tend to target clients at the top end of the income ...