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Top asset consultants named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... its investment management survey naming Australia's top ranked asset consultant. Willis Towers Watson and Frontier Advisors share the top spot this year after surveying around 100 chief investment and chief executive officers, as well as other institutional ...

Morningstar acquires global ESG ratings house

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... several years has helped to extend the understanding and use of ESG insights and strategies to a multitude of investors, advisors, asset owners and managers across the globe. "This new ownership structure will amplify our ability to bring meaningful ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... volatility in the next phase in markets, the tracking error for passive strategies may increase." But State Street Global Advisors head of investments Jon Shead said there were no structural issues in the market. "I believe the high levels of volatility ...

Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... investor sentiment low, a collapse in earnings could trigger another fall in risk assets. According to State Street Global Advisors senior investment strategist Raf Choudhury, this uncertainty and volatility surrounding equities, fixed income and currency ...

Managed accounts use broadens

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... financial advisers with lower-balance clients, according to new research from Investment Trends and State Street Global Advisors. The second SPDR ETFs/Investment Trends Managed Accounts report shows managed account use shot up by 14% over the last year ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... deeper into a global recession far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to State Street Global Advisors head of global macro policy research Amlan Roy, who argues the International Monetary Fund's prediction of global growth ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... financial markets. If I'm brutally honest, we stopped selling. We stopped selling because we wanted to help financial advisors and get them set up." Rady said the firm recently delivered a series of webinars on how advisers can be most efficient ...

Changes to foreign investment rules hurt managed funds

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... investment review framework, arguing they will damage the Australian economy and its managed funds businesses. Atlas Advisors Australia said the new temporary FIRB rules would curb the managed funds industry's ability to support Australia's economic ...

Sargon Capital to be liquidated

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
Sargon Capital's creditors yesterday voted unanimously to wind up the company, starting a liquidation process that could last 12 months. Taiping Trustees, which is Sargon Capital's only known secured creditor for about $97 million and other ...

Hundreds of thousands flock to early release

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... government relief package is to help the economy withstand and recover from the economic impacts of the crisis. "Some advisors may be grappling with the tax consequences associated with the stimulus payments, and wondering what will attract our attention," ...