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BT health score helping claimants back to work

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
A health score introduced by BT a year ago to help its insurance claimants get back into the workforce is showing strong signs of being a success. Introduced in July 2015, BT's health outcome measure assesses a person on a number of health aspects including ...

Australasia sees continued Canadian investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... Canada's public sector pension investment manager more than doubled its natural resources allocation in 2015-16, and Australasia continues to be one of the major beneficiaries. In its recent annual report PSP Investments said Australasia makes up more ...

New income fund launches

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... institutional investors as well as retail investors through platform providers. Aviva Investors' head of business development Australasia, Brett Jackson, said the launch of the fund comes at an opportune time for the Australian market, which has been ...

BlackRock, Aviva receive ratings nod

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... 2016) globally since the strategy was launched in July 2014. Commenting on the rating, head of business development Australasia at Aviva Investors, Brett Jackson said: "We are delighted to receive the positive rating from LONSEC within such a short time ...

Responsible assets close to half of total Australia AUM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... comprises roughly 47% of all assets under management in Australia, according to Responsible Investment Association Australasia figures. The RIAA's latest Responsible Investment Benchmark Report, based on data supplied by 69 asset managers, super funds ...

Industry fund reduces insurance premiums

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
... with a clearly defined membership base NESS Super was able to negotiate a better deal with insurers Hannover Life Re Australasia. Mastrippolito said providing a clear and consistent risk-profile of the fund's membership "proved that our members work ...

M&A activity impacted by politics

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
Macquarie Group and Deloitte led the financial adviser merger and acquisition deal count in Australasia during the first half of 2016, according to the latest Mergermarket data. Both firms recorded 14 deals in the six months to 1 July, followed by Goldman ...

Morningstar reappointed as CBA advice research provider

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
Commonwealth Bank has reappointed Morningstar Australasia as primary investment research provider for its wealth management advice licensees - Commonwealth Financial Planning, Financial Wisdom and BW Financial Advice. From 1 September 2016, Morningstar ...

Objectives-based investing under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... performance to better reflect a fund's flows and, in most cases, investors' actual returns lag total returns. Morningstar Australasia director of manager research, Tim Murphy, told a briefing in Sydney yesterday that post-GFC there has been an increasing ...

Crestone open for business after UBS deal completes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016