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Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
Australian superannuation funds could take the country's agriculture sector to the next level in global competitiveness but they will need help in doing so. Industry Super Australia has published a discussion paper that responds to calls for the $2 ...

NAB sells trustee business to IOOF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
IOOF will acquire National Australia Trustees Limited following an agreement with NAB, making it one of Australia's largest compensation trust providers. IOOF managing director Christopher Kelaher described National Australia Trustees' offering as a ...

Schroders managers join Bennelong UK business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
Two veteran Schroders fund managers will join a boutique launched by the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management. Paul Marriage and John Warren will transfer over to Bennelong subsidiary BennBridge and its first UK boutique Tellworth Investments in ...

Former AFA executive returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers will welcome the return of its former chief operating officer in the role of general manager, policy and professionalism. Phil Anderson left the association in 2015 to join Netwealth where he worked as general manager ...

World Vision soft launches investment fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
World Vision is soft launching an endowment fund targeting the interests of institutional investors with the intention to "put their assets to use in new ways." World Vision Australia chief executive Claire Rogers told Financial Standard the fund will ...

Manager lists after $3bn merger

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
The vast majority of shareholders in an ASX-listed fund manager have approved a merger including $3.1 billion in funds under management, creating a new listed entity in the process. Following this decision, Hunter Hall will merge with Pengana Capital ...

CFA Institute shrinks gender parity gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
The number of male and female CFA candidates are almost at parity, according to the CFA Institute. About 46% females and 54% males sat the exam in December last year. Females who re-sat the exam accounted for 44% of total candidates. The Institute's ...

MetLife raises bar on group insurance awareness

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Group life insurer MetLife launched a national campaign to ensure every working Australian is aware of built-in life insurance available through superannuation. Group insurance provides a "really good value base form of protection", but far too many ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Lock it in, Eddie. Lock in another 25 basis point interest rate hike after the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee meets on 13-14 June. The odds of the Fed raising the fed funds rate from 0.75%-1.0% to 1.0%-1.25% next month have already risen to more ...

Qualitas launches fund, adds two directors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... 16 years at National Australia Bank as a corporate property director. Norwood joins as a real estate director and spent close to a decade at ANZ where he held executive relationship management roles and prior to that worked in risk at CBA for seven years. ...