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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... releases - such as the improvement in PMI (both Caixin and official measure) in March -- giving credence to the IMF's recent upgrade of its 2016 China growth forecast from 6.3% to 6.5%. Chinese exports jumped by 11.5% to US$160.9 billion in the year ...

CommInsure appoints life product and strategy head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
CommInsure has appointed former senior executive, Frank Crapis, as head of life product and strategy. Crapis will replace Sally Phillips who was appointed to the role just four months earlier. CommInsure confirmed that the changes have been in motion ...

Wingate hires head of research from London

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
Boutique global equities manager Wingate Asset Management has appointed an investment manager from a UK firm to a newly-created head of research role. Hugh Selby-Smith joins the firm's Melbourne office from London-based Omni Partners, where he was responsible ...

PIMCO receives Zenith upgrade

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... of outperformance." PIMCO now has a total of five funds rated "Highly Recommended" by Zenith. Commenting on the ratings upgrade, head of PIMCO Australia and New Zealand, Adrian Stewart said, "These ratings are a strong endorsement of the quality of our ...

Lonsec and Zenith upgrade Fidelity ratings

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
Lonsec has upgraded the Fidelity Future Leaders Fund to "Highly Recommended" and Zenith has increased its rating of Fidelity's Australian mid- and small-cap fund managed by James Abela to "Recommended". In a statement Lonsec said, "James Abela is a ...

CFS upgrades FirstChoice and FirstWrap

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
Colonial First State (CFS) has made more enhancements to its platforms to help advisers spend less time on back-office work and more time in front of their clients. CFS general manager product and investments, Peter Chun, said the improvements responded ...

Bravura gives VicSuper tech overhaul

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... sustainable competitive advantage to grow market position. Dundon said there was a range of benefits to the technological upgrade. "There's the straight through processing (STP) around contribution collection, so the money gets in to a member account ...

Back-office upgrade is front of mind for time-conscious advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
Client data processing has always been a perennial pain in the back office because advisers have to re-key the same information multiple times. A new deal between netwealth and IRESS plans to change that. Platform provider netwealth and software solutions ...

BT multi asset fund gets top Lonsec rating

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
Lonsec has upgraded the BT Active Balanced Wholesale Fund to 'Highly Recommended' - its highest possible rating. In its latest research report on the fund managed by Martyn Wild, Lonsec said the fund is "considered to be reasonably well resourced and ...

Three super funds take responsible investment gong

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
The Responsible Investment Association of Australasia has revised its certification program, giving its highest marks to three super funds. RIAA's Responsible Investment Certification Program is designed to award investment products, super funds, dealer ...