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HUB24 adds international portfolios to platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
HUB24 has made international managed portfolios available on its platform for the first time. The move allows investors to directly own international listed companies via professionally managed portfolios from more than 15 global markets across North ...

Former FPA chair joins Tax Practitioners Board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has welcomed the appointment of a financial adviser to the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) after long advocating for the position. Former FPA chair Julie Berry is one of five new board appointments ...

Venture capital is back in vogue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
During a week where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has put Australia's innovation in the spotlight and offered more incentives for angel investors, there is a feeling venture capital is back in vogue. Corporate lawyer and MinterEllison partner Riccardo ...

UniSuper develops retirement product

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
UniSuper is developing FlexiChoice, a lifetime retirement income solution that addresses issues such as longevity or sequencing risk. The comprehensive income product for retirement (CIPR) is designed to provide members with access to a default lifetime ...

Four steps up, four steps down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
Is the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) just toying with monetary policy or what? This is the feeling one gets when one looks at the history of the RBNZ's adjustments to its official cash rate target over the past few years. Yesterday's decision by ...

Women own less than 40% of super assets: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The share of superannuation assets held by women has plateaued over the past four years according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data exclusively compiled for the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Women now hold 36.4% ...

IOOF $20bn custody review selects BNP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
IOOF has selected BNP Paribas Securities Services after consolidating its custodians from three to one. BNP will now provide custody, master custody, middle-office and compliance services for IOOF; previously, these responsibilities were also distributed ...

CBA to close institutional equities business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
Commonwealth Bank is closing its institutional equities business following a strategic partnership with Goldman Sachs investment bank. Commonwealth Bank's proprietary institutional equities team that forms part of the bank's institutional banking and ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
No more quotas. No more targets. No more ceilings. This was OPEC's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 ...

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 ...