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Asset owners, managers not prepped for blockchain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
A survey by State Street has found that while 65% of APAC asset owners and managers expect blockchain technology to be widely adopted in the next five years, only 33% of participants actually have blockchain initiatives underway at present to support ...

AXA IM acquires major Australian real estate fund manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has acquired a leading Australian real estate fund and investment manager. Eureka Funds Management, founded in 2004 by Bob Kelly, Kumar Kalyanakumar, Quentin Shaw, Niall McCarthy and Rod Cowdroy, currently has $5 ...

Canadian instos approved for Aussie ag investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Two Canadian institutional investors now have regulatory approval to acquire 49% of the Australian arm of diversified natural resource company Glencore Agriculture. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it will not oppose the ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... -- with 214 of the 225 stocks in the index on the up - at the close of trading. "The new policy framework consists of two major components: the first is "yield curve control" in which the Bank will control short-term and long-term interest rates; and ...

Centrepoint establishes adviser transition program

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... moving from an employed to a self-employed business model. "With the industry continuing to undergo rapid change and facing major public reputation and legislative risks, more and more advisers at all levels are seeing the benefit of taking responsibility ...

Vision Super divests from three high carbon companies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... three low carbon investments. The move will achieve a reduction of 75% of the benchmark carbon footprinting. "This is a major step in further de-carbonising Vision Super's portfolio," chief executive Stephen Rowe said. Vision Super's mandate with international ...

Charter Hall invests in two commercial properties

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
Charter Hall has made significant investments in two well-known Australian commercial properties. Firstly the real estate investment manager has co-invested a total of $197 million with MTAA Super to buy the Campbelltown Mall in an off market transaction. ...

DTCC to cut GTR fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... supplier of trade repository services, with over 7,000 firms around the globe and 500 in Asia alone, supporting all five major OTC derivatives asset classes including credit, interest rates, equities, FX and commodities. In addition to the ASIC & MAS ...

Women behind in financial wellness survey

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Women are "overrepresented" in low financial wellness indices, according to Workplace Super Specialists Australia research. The WSSA Financial Wellness index was developed in partnership with CoreData, and essentially defines the extent to which a given ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... 64 of the 70 cities in August (compared with 51 in July) with only 4 cities registering lower prices. House prices in the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai went up by 23.5% and 31.2%, respectively, over the past 12 months to August. In Xiamen ...