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Top industry fund bets on DNA sequencing

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... 1.1 million members," Hostplus chief executive David Elia said. Oxford Nanopore will use the investments to expand its research and development. "Our business is moving quickly from personal sequencers, into high-end sequencing and distributed analyses. ...

FSC proposes genetics and insurance council

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... proposing to establish a Genetics and Insurance Advisory Council in an effort to engage in a booming field of clinical research and genetics testing. Chief executive Sally Loane announced the initiative at this morning's FSC Life Insurance Conference ...

Aussies turn to online trading in droves

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... At the same time, the ALL ORDS also soared, providing strong support to the growth of the market," Investment Trends research director Irene Guiamatsia said. Investment Trends suggests the growth was largely due to Australians getting involved in online ...

SMSFs continue to break with tradition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
Investment in Australia's top 20 stocks by the self-managed superannuation sector is growing as lower returns see investors turning their back on traditional SMSF portfolio darlings. According to the latest CommSec SMSF Trading Trends Report, SMSFs ...

FSC honours life insurance industry talent

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... and advisers engage with people experiencing mental health issues. It is developed in conjunction with mental health research organisation the Black Dog Institute. Since a training refresh in October 2017, AMP has seen about 600 financial advisers voluntarily ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that the annual growth rate in Australian residential property prices continued to ease in the December 2017 quarter. The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property ...

Smart beta emerging markets ETF launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... management fee of 0.69%. VanEck had $1.1 billion FUM in exchange-traded products as at September, according to Rainmaker research. It holds 3% of the market share among ETP managers, behind BlackRock (29%), Vanguard (28%), State Street (17%), and BetaShares ...

ING appoints head of wealth from Suncorp

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... also head of marketing and product at Australian Wealth Management, marketing manager at Citibank Australia, head of research services at Colonial Bank and market research manager at Rothschild. At the same time as Duncan's appointment, APRA announced ...

IOOF replaces group head of research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
The former chief executive of Lonsec Research will join IOOF as head of research and retirement incomes in late April. Matt Olsen replaces former head of research and portfolio construction Matthew Drennan who tendered his resignation in December 2017. ...

Zurich hires risk strategy specialist, retains OnePath brand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... business. Crabbe's 25 years of experience spans risk, financial advice and academia. He was a senior analyst of risk research at CBA, joining in June 2013 and prior to that was a practitioner and lecturer at Kaplan. Zurich head of sales for life risk ...