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Schroders restructures team, appoints investments lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
Schroders has created the role of chief investment officer, Australia, while also making two leadership appointments within its multi-asset and fixed income teams. Simon Doyle has been named chief investment officer, Australia in addition to his role ...

Global markets shaken by war

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... Somasundaram said. "CROPEC knows that these asset bubbles are not sustainable in elevated inflation. Western economies saw the problem but were too greedy to fix it. Ignoring the problem and allowing it to get even bigger has allowed CROPEC to use it ...

PwC appoints insurance leader

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
PwC Australia today announced the appointment of Yoshiro Makita as insurance leader for Australia within the firm's Financial Services business. Makita joined the Australian firm, transferring from PwC Japan where he led that its insurance consulting ...

WealthO2, ROAR and NEO merge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... solution, or by extracting any part of this and inserting it into an adviser's existing workflow to solve a particular problem. We are a complete advice technology solutions provider as opposed to a product-style platform which seems to have lost ...

Zerocap unveils new bitcoin fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... entry point, no matter when you enter it delivers an outsized portfolio impact. "Zerocap Smart Beta Bitcoin solves this problem by balancing timing risk while providing risk adjusted returns." Zerocap's head of trading Toby Chapple added that the product ...

Magellan funds under review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
After Magellan co-founder Hamish Douglass announced he would take extended medical leave, the company's share price dove and its fund ratings are under review. Morningstar said all of Magellan's global and high conviction funds are under review due ...

AIST, MetLife tackle underinsurance issue

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... Trustees have joined forces to raise awareness about the importance of group insurance in a bid to tackle the underinsurance problem. AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck told Financial Standard that this partnership will ensure profit-to-member funds ...

Consumer advocates criticise advice review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
The Consumer Action Law Centre has concerns that the Quality of Advice Review draft terms of references forget Commissioner Hayne's findings on conflicted remuneration. In the centre's submission on the review's draft terms of references, it argued ...

Quality of Advice must consider digital: Ignition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... said. "This conclusion has been obvious to many in Australia's financial services industry for some years: the past problem has been a lack of sufficiently sophisticated digital advice solutions for institutions to consider." He added that Australia ...

Environmental goals edge out social issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
Sustainable investors tend to favour environmental-themed strategies over social ones as the former is more tangible and easier to measure. According to Robeco head of sustainable investing research Rachel Whittaker, environmental factors such as emissions ...