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Rimmer departs in EQT management shake-up

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
After promoting four members of its corporate trustees services team in September, Equity Trustees has made further management changes as part of its ongoing restructure. The goal of these new changes, according to EQT, is to "more clearly define management ...

Former State Street analyst joins Parametric

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Parametric has appointed a former derivatives analyst from State Street to a newly created role. Susan Bu will step into the new position of analyst, product management to work closely with Parametric's Australian team on business strategy. Bu's responsibilities ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Australia ANZ job ads The latest ANZ job ads survey shows that the total number of job advertisements fell by 0.3% in the month of September following the strong 1.7% jump in the previous month. The year-on-year growth in job ads slowed to 3.7% last ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
MSCI head of Research Remy Briand has countered a recent paper from AllianceBernstein which suggested passive investing is "worse than Marxism." The original paper, spearheaded by Bernstein Investment Research and Management head of global quantitative ...

CFSGAM grows investments team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
Colonial First State Global Asset Management has strengthened its global unlisted infrastructure investments team with two new appointments. Asieh Mansour, who was most recently a senior adviser at Townsend Group, has joined the company's board to oversee ...

Future of advice to be shaped by the customer

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
The future of financial advice and happy medium between digital and face to face advice will be determined by the customer, according to general manager of advice partnerships at National Australia Bank, Ross Barnwell. Speaking with Financial Standard ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
US durable goods orders The latest update on total new durable goods orders could easily be taken as a positive for, despite a flat (0% growth) outcome in August from July, this was better than market expectations for a 1.9% decline and could be attributed ...

Zurich reveals risk distribution team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Zurich has unveiled an expanded distribution team following its acquisition of Macquarie Life's risk business. Having already appointed Dave Evans to the role of national sales manager, the insurer has now added a further 14 new members across its business ...

Valuation dispersion creating opportunity for instos to retilt

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
The dispersion in valuations between the cheapest and the most expensive stocks is the widest it has been at any point since the dotcom boom, according to the founder of global asset manager Pzena Investment Management. The most expensive quintile of ...

Current super objective "un-Australian"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
ASFA believes it is "un-Australian" for politicians to settle on an inadequate objective for superannuation that restricts its purpose to merely substitute or supplement the age pension. The super fund representative body is urging people to take interest ...