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AET appoints new head of corporate trust

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
IOOF subsidiary Australian Executor Trustees has promoted internally, appointing a senior manager to head up its corporate trust division. Yvonne Kelaher will take the reins as the head of corporate trust at the IOOF subsidiary from next week, having ...

Advisers struggling with SMSF diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
Only one in five financial advisers consider clients' self-managed superannuation funds to be well diversified. The 2018 SMSF Insights Paper - a collaboration between Investment Trends, BT Financial Group and the SMSF Association - shows that despite ...

Argo chairman retires

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
The long-time chairman and director of Argo Investments will retire in June. In a set of announcements to the ASX, Argo confirmed Ian Martin will retire from his positions with the firm, including the chairmanship of both Argo Investments and Argo's ...

Managed accounts aid adviser time management

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
Financial advisers using managed accounts are saving an average of 12.4 hours per week on portfolio management tasks, according to research from NAB and Investment Trends. The report shows using a managed account structure shaves the most time off investment ...

APRA urges super funds to examine board skills

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
The prudential regulator is asking superannuation fund licensees to reconsider whether board members contain the requisite mix of skills and capabilities to fulfil their role. The regulator sent all registrable superannuation entities (RSEs) a letter ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
It's good and...it's bad. The statistician's estimates of the Australian labour market for April provide something to crow about for the optimists and the pessimists alike. As the bulls would have it (that includes the Coalition government ...

Macquarie merges private wealth businesses

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
Macquarie Group is consolidating its private bank and private wealth businesses to concentrate its growth strategy on high net-worth (HNW) clients, a move it expects to affect advisers. HNW clients are already the exclusive focus of Macquarie's private ...

Fees for no service compensation unfinished business: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
Newly-minted ASIC chair James Shipton said there will be more consumer compensation to come over fees for no service financial advice. Three months into his role, Shipton addressed the annual Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference ...

Industry fund awards emerging markets mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
An investment manager fast approaching US$10 billion in assets under management and advice recently won an emerging markets equities mandate from an industry superannuation fund. ClariVest Asset Management will manage the $75 million mandate from the ...

Thematic SMAs on the rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
A thematic international investment house partnered with a $110 billion platform to provide access to several separately managed accounts. Praemium has added three themed global share portfolios from Macrovue; the Macroevue Car of the Future Concentrated ...