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BNY Mellon secures former PM Capital head

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
... development manager at Portfolio Partners. Insight Investment currently manages $38.9 billion on behalf of Australian institutional investors; this comprises $23.5 billion in currency risk management programs, $1.8 billion in an inflation-plus multi-asset ...

Industry realigns for climate change

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
Australia's financial services industry and regulators no longer broadly consider climate change to be a separate, distant or "non-financial" issue. APRA member Geoff Summerhayes' speech on the topic at the Insurance Council of Australia Annual Forum ...

Global fintech heralds Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
... of projects - global markets at Standard Chartered Bank, a senior manager at HSBC and chief financial officer for institutional equities at J.P. Morgan. AxiomSL chief product officer and Asia-Pacific chief executive Olivier Kamoun said Wood's appointment ...

ING Direct partners with Apple Pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
Over half a million ING Direct customers will benefit from a new integration with Apple Pay. With 74% of the bank's customer interactions coming via its mobile app, the integration is in response to high demand from customers for the mobile payment ...

CBA caught out on unpaid super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
CBA could be forced to back pay millions in unpaid superannuation to at least 7000 employees. The Finance Sector Union of Australia has revealed the bank has failed to pay part-time staff members their full 9.5% superannuation guarantee entitlements ...

Penklis returns with $275m private equity fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... fund in partnership with three other professionals. Odyssey Private Equity, which recently concluded a $275 million institutional fund raising, will mostly invest between $15 and $40 million in mid-sized growth companies and take both control and minority ...

AMP super trust adds $450m corporate fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
A $450 million corporate super fund will transfer to AMP's SignatureSuper master trust. The Water Corporation Superannuation Plan represents more than 3500 members. The decision to move to AMP followed a tender process which determined SignatureSuper ...

BNY Mellon strengthens insto team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
Multi-boutique asset manager BNY Mellon Investment Management is welcoming Denis Gambi as director of institutional business, Australia. Gambi will focus on the institutional, corporate, government and ultra-high net worth segments, providing investment ...

Vanguard introduces low-cost active funds

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... Global Value Equity Fund; and Vanguard Global Minimum Volatility Fund; will be available to advisers, investors and institutional clients. "Vanguard has a long-held conviction that there is a role for both index and active investments in a portfolio ...

Fraser review challenges super board independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
The Bernie Fraser review of industry superannuation fund governance puts the onus of proof back on the government to demonstrate that one-third independent boards are the best way forward. "It is far from self-evident that simply mandating minimum numbers ...