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Asset management modeling low-cost airlines

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
CREATE-Research chief executive Professor Amin Rajan foresees the future of asset management being similar to the evolution of low-cost airlines. He said low-cost airlines made flying affordable by stripping out many of the "bells and whistles" and ...

NAB launches robo-advice platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
NAB has unveiled its new digital advice service for internet banking customers. NAB Prosper will initially be made available to 40,000 NAB internet banking users, who will be surveyed about their financial status and goals. Based on that information ...

Monash absolute return fund goes retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
The Monash Absolute Investment Fund will be available to retail investors, following the manager's partnership with a third party distribution firm. Winston Capital Partners will distribute Monash Investors' fund to investors seeking exposure to an ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

JPMAM launches insto investment insights app

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has launched an investment insights app targeted at institutional investors and their consultants. The tool is designed to give these investors access to JPMAM's research across asset classes, markets and "investment themes," ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
It's back! And it's good! Yes Virginia, the "bad news is good news" trade is back on. It's risk back on as China's bad -- very, very bad, trade data sparked hopes of further stimulus and Fed lift-off delay. As 'The Guardian' reports, the latest trade ...

Zurich launches planner client survey tool

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Zurich has launched Wealth Index, a client-facing survey tool part of its robo-advice offering. Wealth Index is integrated into Zurich's Adviser Flipchart program, which, as reported in Financial Standard on July 15, allows advisers' clients to project ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
The Australian funds management industry is failing to attract female fund managers, even if research proves that gender diverse investment teams outperform those who are male-only. At a time when the financial services sector is pushing to increase ...

ASIC warns super funds over transparency requirements

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
A survey of superannuation websites by ASIC has found that some super funds are falling short in their requirement to display certain information on their websites. The Superannuation (Industry) Supervision Act (SIS Act) and SIS regulations 2.37 and ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Net establishments of new self-managed super funds have steadily declined since mid-2014, according to ATO and APRA data. Specifically, net establishments have fallen by 24% to 22,822 in the 12 months to June 2015. While this can be partly attributed ...