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FSC awards life insurance standouts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... Innovation Award went to AIA 'Vitality', while AMP's 'MyLife' was highly commended. MLC's general manager sales, retail advice, Russell Hannah was presented with the Industry Mentor Award. FSC chief executive Sally Loane recognised the life insurance ...

BTFG chief investment officer exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... CIO in June 2016. He was also an executive director of BT Funds Management (NZ) Limited. Wild was a senior consultant at Russell Investments and became director of investment solutions prior to joining BTFG. He was also a manager of equity products at ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... palpable. The S&P 500 index fell by 1.4% over the week but a clearer indication of disappointment is the 2.7% drop in the Russell 2000 index - small US companies that would benefit more from Trump's "America First" policy. The yield on 10-year US Treasuries ...

Senior hires at REST

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... newly-created roles to help drive employer relations. Joining the $43 billion fund as head of employer engagement is Matt Russell. He will lead the national business development and employer relations teams and has more than 30 years' experience in wealth ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell by 1.1% and the yield on 10-year ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... workers of landing jobs and the economic strength. The gains in US equities -- Dow up 0.2%, S&P up 0.3%, Nasdaq up 0.4%, Russell 2000 up 0.4% -- and the 5.2% drop in the VIX index to a reading of 11.66 show that investors widely welcome the Fed's coming ...

Russell Investments and Netwealth strike platform deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Russell Investments will enter the platform market after securing an $850 million white-label deal with one of Australia's key platform providers. Following a detailed review of platform providers, Netwealth was selected by Russell to partner on the ...

SSGA wields power on gender equality

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... on par with men, a further $28 trillion would be added to annual global GDP by 2025. At this stage though, a quarter of Russell 3000 companies do not have any women on their boards, and almost 60% have below 15% female board representation. State Street ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... closed at record highs - the Dow at 21,115.55 points; the S&P 500 at 2395.96 points; the Nasdaq at 5,904.03 points and the Russell 2000 at 1,413.64 points - on 1 March 2017. This was the day US president Trump addressed the joint session of Congress ...

Spring FG acquires advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... is expected to contribute an additional $1.8 million per annum in recurring revenue. Its founder and chief executive, Russell Medcraft, will join Spring FG in an executive capacity. Under the terms of the agreement, Spring FG will pay $2 million in cash ...