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Global manager wins super fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... portfolios that reflect our clients' preferences around factor exposures. "Super funds and their advisers have their own smart ideas about what kinds of portfolios they want. Sometimes a traditional manager will be best to make these ideas real. But ...

FICAP launches 2019 program, names new charity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
The Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) is gearing up for its "Who Wants to be a Rockstar?" fundraiser, with the new charity announced this month. Last Thursday, the FICAP committee and the charity beneficiaries from this year's fundraising ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... creating more demand for indices in sovereign, composite and high yield. Interestingly, despite recent attention on ESG and smart beta indices, these own less than 6% of the market combined, Redding says. For an index provider, Bloomberg LP head of portfolio ...

Swiss manager invests in Queensland solar

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... investment team will look for potential investments in areas including large scale solar farms, wind re-powering projects, smart-grid and smart metre roll outs and e-mobility charging infrastructure. The SUSI Asia energy transition strategy will target ...

Whitehelm targets $2.4tn sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
Whitehelm Capital and a Dutch pension fund service provider have combined to launch the Smart City Infrastructure Fund with about $400 million in seed funding. The investment vehicle is set up to pool pension fund investments in select smart city infrastructure ...

Westpac admits it didn't take FoFA seriously

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... delivered," the report said. The bank has closed 47 branches and 443 ATMs in the year, but almost half of its ATMs are now smart ATMs, up from just a quarter five years ago. More than 70% of all electricity generation projects that the bank financed ...

ANZ wealth flows decline

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... September 2018, released this morning, ANZ reported its divested pension and investments - which included the wrap platform, ANZ Smart Choice, One Answer Frontier - suffered net outflows of $1.8 billion. In FY17, net outflows totalled $1.1 billion. Funds ...

Two new ETFs on the block

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
VanEck and BetaShares have announced new ETFs, as product launches in the segment heat up. A new smart beta ETF from VanEck will invest in China A-shares, after the manager gained a licence to invest in the asset class independent of the China Stock ...

Robo-advice register launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Adviser Ratings has launched a new website that compares a multitude of robo-advisers in the market. The Robo Adviser (Smart Tools) register profiles 36 financial management fintech solutions sold directly to consumers that provide budgeting, trading ...

Advisers: Keep your clients off A Current Affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Sunsuper chief economist Brian Parker told delegates at the AFA National Adviser Conference their role is to ensure their clients don't end up a case study for A Current Affair. Ending his presentation on the state of the global economy this week, Parker ...