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JPMAM appoints Australian CEO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... Farrell held a number of senior positions during her 12 years at the firm. Previously she was head of the global discretionary portfolio management team for Bankers Trust Switzerland AG and a member of the global investment committee.

HSBC expands private wealth business

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... Kong or Singapore. Australian resident private banking clients will have access to investment services including discretionary investment management, equities, fixed income, structured products and derivatives; as well as banking and lending services ...

ANZ wealth sale marks end of an advice era

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... an efficient practice with full client engagement and ownership - a natural candidate for an integrated managed discretionary account (MDA) solution." All of these options present challenges for established advice businesses, but Harding-Davis believes ...

FirstChoice Alternatives adds new macro manager

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2016
... portfolio has added a new macro investment manager and hit a new funds under management milestone. London based discretionary macro manager H20 Asset Management was recently added to the portfolio, taking the total number of investment managers in FirstChoice ...

NAB Wealth reports solid growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... Expenses for NAB Wealth dipped 4%, reflective of lower regulatory and compliance spend combined with firm control of discretionary costs, according to the annual report. Overall, the bank recorded a net profit of just $352 million, down 94.4% year on ...

Cities over countries for TH Real Estate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... "Productivity is higher, innovation abounds and populations are younger, more affluent and with a higher level of discretionary spending, even after living costs. As a result, the best cities in Europe will grow exponentially and have continually increasing ...

MDAs overhauled by new regulations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... have wide-ranging benefits for the sector. "The removal of no-action letters will drive greater professionalism as discretionary managed account providers will need to comply with higher hurdles of technical proficiency to deliver managed portfolio services ...

Report outlines impact of MDA operation reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... on the industry is the removal of a No Action Letter, which some advisers have used as a foundation for running discretionary portfolios on regulated platforms via a Limited MDA arrangement. MGP chief executive David Heather says the removal of the No ...

Rethinking risk through goals-based investing

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... superannuation as an income stream, up from 20% in 2003-04. When lump sums were taken out, they were generally for discretionary spending - half the amounts withdrawn were for less than $25,000, generally to cover home investments, buying or paying off ...

Ostrava wound up, directors banned

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... Corporations Act by "making misleading statements to clients about the value of their SMSFs, providing unlicensed managed discretionary account services, failing to comply with financial services disclosure obligations and failing to act in client's ...