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Morphic co-founder exits

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... investment insight and resources of the broader Ellerston Teams." Morphic is a long/short global equities manager with a focus on ethical investing. It had about $113 million in total assets at September end, split across an unlisted fund (Morphic Global ...

Super fund chief to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
The long-serving chief executive of an industry superannuation fund has announced their intention to retire. Bill McRobert will depart as chief executive of the Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF) in March of next year. The decision ...

Self-licensing on the horizon

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... technology, approved product lists, business support and access to the right training opportunities are also critical areas of focus," he said. According to Centrepoint's new white paper, What's your path?, the main benefit of self-licensing ...

bfinance names client consultant

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... benchmarking, performance monitoring, and risk analytics. van Zyp said: ""As Australian investors maintain their strong focus on governance and best practices, we are well placed to assist our clients with bfinance's robust decision-making solutions ...

Derivatives issuer cops $75m penalty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... consequences for firms who engage in this sort of misconduct," Crennan said. "The retail OTC derivatives sector remains a focus for ASIC, given misconduct identified across the sector. Where misconduct is detected, ASIC will continue to take strong enforcement ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
It won't be long now till we again hear "balcony concertos" - the ones started in Italy back in March this year (and gone viral on cyberspace) when the government imposed a hard lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic - for infections in Europe ...

Multi-boutique adds investment firms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
A multi-boutique that launched earlier this year has added two new fund managers to its stable. Mantis Funds is now providing distribution and operations support to Gyrostat Capital Management and Terra Capital. Mantis was launched in June this year ...

Wingate adds to property platform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... established and respected investment house," Farley said. "Wingate's unique investment approach and strong people and culture focus was a natural fit for me and I'm excited to work with the existing property team to grow the platform."

APRA advises funds to review ownership structures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... under the controlling stake requirements. APRA said after undertaking a review of the implementation by RSE licensees its focus has been on the interaction of the ownership definitions that relate to a "stake" and ensuring a person applies for the required ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
A small cap fund backed by two fresh-faced investors with no prior funds management experience has managed to outperform the benchmark consistently since its inception in July 2018. As of August 31, Spatium Capital's Small Companies Fund returned ...