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Crestone announces major partnerships

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
Crestone, the firm which spun out of UBS Wealth Management, has announced strategic partnerships with a number of major financial institutions. Crestone was formed in 2015 following UBS's announcement that it was exiting domestic wealth management in ...

UniSuper develops retirement product

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... order to manage financial obligations through different life stages. "UniSuper's development of FlexiChoice represents a major shift in the way individual superannuation funds create products specifically to address how superannuation can deliver retirement ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... investors in Venture Capital Limited Partnerships (VCLPs)," an AVCAL statement said. Fintech hub Stone and Chalk also was a major supporter of the innovation statement but said it not go far enough in relation to reforms of employee share schemes, and ...

Most global equities managers outperformed in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
A majority of actively managed global equity funds outperformed the MSCI World Index for the year ending 30 September 2015, Zenith Investment Partners research shows. A total of 55% of funds on Zenith's Approved List outperformed the benchmark, which ...

Default super should have base ESG standard: RIAA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) is calling for default superannuation investments to include a base level of environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. In its latest discussion paper RIAA has proposed MySuper products ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has penned a letter to Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer supporting several amendments to the superannuation trustee governance bill. ASFA has told O'Dwyer it would support the federal government ...

La Trobe Financial Standard Philanthropy Awards judging panel announced

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... funds have provided some $200 million in vital growth capital to some of Australia's most promising start-ups. Smorgan was a major part of one of Australia's largest family businesses, Smorgon Consolidated Industries, for 25 years until the business ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... region mostly closed higher on that day. The price of iron ore jumped 1.7%; the A$/US$ was below US$0.71;...and oh, two big major investment companies were talking up Australia too that particular day. "There is more reason for international investors ...

The world of ASFA according to Twitter

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... changed the world of TV programming forever when it started providing on-demand internet streaming media. At a stroke, the major networks no longer had control over what people watched (and when) anymore - it's the other way around. If the switch can ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... typo for the Swiss franc is back in the news again. As Bloomberg reports, "The franc fell against all but one of its 16 major peers Friday." "The franc dropped 0.7 percent to 1.0306 per dollar as of 4:51 p.m. London time, its biggest one-day decline ...