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Blue Sky names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... director at Hastings Funds Management from 2011 to 2017. "Andrew has deep experience of stewarding companies through disruption and transformation. He also has considerable skills in business strategy, financial oversight, risk management and compliance ...

Hedge funds fall out of favour with instos: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
New EY research shows investors are turning away from hedge funds and looking to private equity assets to uphold their alternatives portfolio. While hedge funds currently have the lion's share (40%) of institutional investors' alternatives portfolios ...

Banks must reshape to survive compliance and technology crunches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... Royal Commission, regulatory pressures and a rapidly evolving competitive environment all pointing to ongoing sector disruption," Dring said. "Unsurprisingly, slowing revenue and upward cost pressures have seen cost-to-income ratios tick up (to an average ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... 15.3% in the year to August. However, financial markets consider this as a temporary slowdown that's caused by the disruption to businesses and consumer activity by the natural disasters that hit the country in recent months. All up, expect to read ...

Digital custody evolutionary, not revolutionary: SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... form where we are today into a fully decentralised kind of environment is just too big," Roncone said. "The level of disruption would be enormous but more importantly we are not convinced that the financial industry is ready for such a step, while at ...

Netwealth releases adviser toolkit

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... said his team left the workshop with actionable innovations. Netwealth will launch more tools for advisers addressing disruption, developing its AdviceTech roadmap, articulating values and reducing internal inefficiencies.

Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... directors. SEC enforcement division co-director Steven Peikin said: "The resolution is intended to prevent further market disruption and harm to Tesla's shareholders." SEC enforcement division co-director Stephanie Avakian said. "The total package ...

Nikko launches global disruption fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
Nikko Asset Management is launching a global disruptive innovation fund in partnership with ARK Investment Management. The fund is a global equity portfolio focused on disruptive innovation, providing Australian investors with exposure to ARK's disruptive ...

New fund to invest in "clean disruption" tech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... Macquarie bankers has launched a new thematic fund that will invest in listed companies that produce and utilise clean disruption technology. AtlasTrends was founded in 2015. Since then, two of its three funds have hit above 10% in annualised returns. ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
Some would call it karma, for many it's just the plain and simple truism that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In his quest to "make America great again" and under the guise of "national security", US President Donald Trump kicked off with ...