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Younger investors flock to offshore equities

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... strong preference for stocks such as Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, Wells Fargo, Lloyds and Berkshire Hathaway, while the latter took an interest in technology and videogame companies including AMD, Nvidia and Activision Blizzard. "Interestingly, Apple ...

Major ASIC project finds serious financial advice concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... financial advice provided by Australia's largest financial institutions - AMP, ANZ, CBA, NAB, Westpac and Macquarie. The latter was excluded from this particular sub-project because ASIC said Macquarie had already undertaken a review and remediation ...

Robo-advice portfolios benefiting from quant factors

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... past investment returns. While the former approach is based on a forward-looking growth story for a niche industry, the latter uses quantitative variables, such as volatility, yield, size and momentum. Schneider said one way of introducing a quantitative ...

Suncorp inches closer to NZ insurer takeover

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... Zealand insurer to 19.9% following a takeover bid in February. Suncorp's bid for Tower Insurance occurred shortly after the latter entered into a scheme implementation agreement with Fairfax Financial Holdings. Fairfax proposed acquiring all of Tower's ...

Challenger hails major retirement partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... develop a global bond product for Australian retirees. The new partnership with Standard Life Investments will see the latter develop a Challenger-branded product, and represents the first time Standard Life has partnered for a retail retirement strategy ...

Veteran Nikko strategist retires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... Tyndall Investment Management, having been a senior dealer at CBA before that. Tyndall was acquired by Nikko as part of the latter's Australian expansion in 2011 and during that time he was head of fixed income, followed by head of fixed income strategy. ...

DomaCom gets ASIC tick for bond crowdfunding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... company can now offer fractional investment in corporate bonds as well as peer-to-peer mortgage bond sub-funds. On the latter, DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis said: "Mortgage bond sub-funds will be the first product we are planning to launch ...

Whitehelm drives Prime Super outperformance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
Whitehelm Capital's partnership with Prime Super played a key role in delivering strong outperformance in 2016, the latter said. Whitehelm, which advises on the $3 billion held in Prime Super across 120,000 member accounts, was instrumental in driving ...

Pillar CEO departs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
Mercer's acquisition of Pillar Administration is in full swing with the latter's chief executive leaving the company this week. Peter Brook was chief executive of the former state-owned superannuation administration firm for about four years from 2013. ...

Hunter Hall appoints LIC director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... stewardship of Hunter Hall Global Value after Peter Hall sold on 19.9% of Hunter Hall. Hall's sale to WHSP is part of the latter's broader takeover bid, and Hall indicated that he will sell his remaining shareholding in the absence of a superior proposal. ...