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JPMAM appoints global market strategist

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has appointed a new global market strategist for Australia. Kerry Craig joins the JPMAM global market insights strategy team from JPMAM's London offices, where he was a global market strategist. Prior to JPMAM, he was a ...

Super governance changes questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
The federal government's focus on accountability around conflicting interests in superannuation boards has been described as "curious" by lawyers reviewing proposed super governance legislation. A paper prepared by Hall and Wilcox Lawyers for the Australian ...

Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
Alpha Fund Managers has become the first Australian investor in a global asset manager's absolute return bond fund. Standard Life Investments' Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Trust aims to return cash plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year ...

Mercer launches super data analytics tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Mercer has launched a new data-driven analytics tool to help super funds better understand their members amid intense competition for funds under management. The company says the new analytics, marketing and strategy platform - to be known as Mercer ...

Life reforms see AIA boost team

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Helping licensees and advisers navigate the latest life insurance reforms has led to AIA Australia making several additions to its strategic partnerships team. Joining AIA Australia as head of strategic partnerships is Kristen Lennis-Harvey who will ...

Titans Fund added to Macquarie Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Insync's Global Titans Fund has been added to the investment and superannuation menus of Macquarie Wrap. The fund is a concentrated, large cap global equity fund that incorporates downside protection strategies and active currency management. It focuses ...

Difficult year for insurance income: CBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev said it had been a difficult year for life insurance income and more work needs to be done to make its product attractive. Yesterday the bank announced a $9.1 billion cash profit for the past financial year ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Capital Preferences has designed a new tool to help financial advisers better understand their clients' and, in turn, help them make better investment decisions, with the help of a scientist from the University of California, Berkeley. The financial ...

Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Pressure to lower fees is forcing superannuation funds to look for new ways to deliver returns at a low cost and some are starting to think the solution might be in smart beta. Head of HSBC Global Asset Management in Australia, Geoffrey Pidgeon, told ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
The word governance only appears nine times in the Wallace report, but 48 times in the Murray report, and many more times than that in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott ...