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La Trobe Financial launches retail platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Investment specialist La Trobe Financial is targeting retail investors with the launch of its new online platform, La Trobe Direct. The new platform provides investors with the opportunity to invest online and directly in to the La Trobe Australian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Client needs to drive transitioning businesses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Advisers must understand the needs of their clients in order to identify the best means of achieving business sustainability in light of recent MDA class order revisions, according to Mason Stevens. The managed accounts provider welcomed the reforms ...

ING investment in digital to see 5800 job cuts

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
ING Group has announced it will be cutting 5800 jobs in Europe as the bank seeks to reduce costs and invest further in its digital transformation. Speaking at the ING Group Investor Day in Amsterdam, chief executive Ralph Hamers announced an investment ...

Vanguard reduces MERs on five funds

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Vanguard has lowered the management expense ratios on five of its Australian funds. The fee reductions apply to the Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield Fund (from 0.4% p.a. to 0.38%), Vanguard Australian Property Securities Index Fund (0.24% to 0.23%) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

Dark pools effective at reducing volatility spikes: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Liquidnet research has shown that volatility of securities is reduced by over 103% in the minute before a block trade when using the firm's anonymous dark pool. The Liquidnet Block Study examined roughly 32,000 block trades - that is, trades executed ...

AMP Capital responds to ChinaAMC unitholder offer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Unitholders in the AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF), which is in the final stages of a wind-up, may receive an offer from China Asset Management (ChinaAMC). AMP Capital, AGF's responsible entity, said it was aware ChinaAMC intended to offer unitholders ...

Next wave of super legislation rolls in

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Attempting to keep superannuation reforms on the move, Treasurer Scott Morrison released more draft legislation yesterday. Among the second tranche of legislation are plans to implement the $1.6 million transfer balance cap, limiting the amount an individual ...