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Global investment firm to restructure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
A global investment firm with $176 billion in assets under management will undergo a corporate restructure. Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts (KKR) will convert from a partnership to a corporation on July 1, in a move which is designed to attract new investors. ...

Macquarie platform, wrap businesses soar

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
Macquarie Group's platform, wrap and managed accounts businesses performed strongly in the full-year to 31 March 2018, latest financial results show. Macquarie Wrap and Vision held $82.5 billion in funds under management, jumping 14% from the previous ...

Super fund launches renewable energy investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Future Super will launch its new investment option later this month, one which targets a 20% allocation to renewable energy and does not invest in fossil fuels. Future Super co-founder Simon Sheikh said Future Super Growth (Renewables Plus) empowers ...

Corporate bond demand strengthens: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Momentum in the local corporate bond market is strengthening as investors start to shift from a deeply-rooted property and equities investment culture to defensive assets that preserve capital and generate a reliable income stream. This is according ...

NAB to divest MLC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
NAB plans to exit the majority of its wealth management operations, including divestment of Australia's largest retail MySuper product. While the bank will continue to service high-net-worth clients via JBWere, it is shedding the rest of its wealth ...

BlackRock restructures iShares ETFs

KANIKA SOOD, KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
BlackRock will delist five of its 19 US-domiciled iShares exchange-traded funds from the ASX and convert the remainder as Australian-domiciled ETFs. The world's largest asset manager is moving towards a locally-domiciled product range and the 14 ETFs ...

Thought leadership: Building portfolios for market crises

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Financial Standard's latest roundtable event turned attention to how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises. SQM Research head of research Robert da Silva says behavioural insights over ...

Fund manager names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
A $15 billion unlisted property fund manager is welcoming its new chair this week. An internal appointment at the Industry Superannuation Property Trust (ISPT) saw Rosemary Hartnett become chair, effective 1 May 2018. She was appointed for a three-year ...

Morningstar creates carbon risk investment tool

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
Investors measuring carbon risk in portfolios have a new tool to score carbon exposure across 30,000 funds globally. Introduction of the Morningstar portfolio Carbon Risk Score aims to move beyond carbon footprinting to provide an assessment of carbon ...

IOOF flags ANZ Wealth results ahead of acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
IOOF alerted shareholders to the updated performance figures for the businesses it is planning to acquire from ANZ. The bank's 1H18 results reveal that cash profits in the wealth division slid by 24% to $44 million. ANZ said this was because of a non-recurring ...