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Industry fund seeks volatility overlay mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... asset classes combined and volatility is quite enormous." In 2016 it also signed a deal with the New York Stock Exchange on smart alternative beta indices that use options. Ho said one of the largest issuers in the US in filing for an ETF on that index ...

Equity Trustees flags acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
Equity Trustees is considering an acquisition of a bank's estates business. Sandhurst Trustees - owned by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank - provides investment, funds and estate management, superannuation, commercial loans and custodial services. It is also ...

Vale George Vassos: Omega Global Investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... directors and co-workers at Omega Global Investors have remembered their beloved friend as a positive, warm, personable and smart man who leaves an impressive legacy. Omega co-founder Andrew Gruskin said the entrepreneurial spirit that conceived Omega ...

MySuper lifecycle funds lead the pack

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... MySuper also recorded a net growth of 25% in total assets along with five-fold increase in number of member accounts; ANZ Smart Choice Super grew by 100% in total assets and a net growth of 15% in member accounts; and CFS First Choice had a net increase ...

Omega appoints former Northward director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... background in this space dovetails perfectly for Omega, its existing capability and its ambitions as the pre-eminent provider of smart portfolio design that meets the specific outcomes of its investors." Moore added: "This is a perfect alignment of interest ...

SelectingSuper announces super fund of the year

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... Product of the Year. In the full service multi-choice awards, IOOF Employer Super won the Workplace Product of the Year; ANZ Smart Choice Super won the Personal Product of the Year; and Colonial First State - FirstChoice Wholesale Pension won the Retirement ...

Omega hires Vanguard, NAB vets

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... where she was a performance analyst. Prior to that, she was a research and finance analyst at Empower Wealth. Omega is a smart beta-focused investment manager based in Melbourne. It currently manages over $3.2 billion for domestic and international clients ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
While big data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which ...

Smart beta performs in Aussie equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
The top three performing exchange-traded products dedicated to Australian equities over the past year were smart beta strategies, a new Rainmaker report shows. Rainmaker's ETP Report for the September quarter shows a wide range of outcomes in the past ...

Super execs: Size is not scale

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... years, and 80% of our investment choices have top quartile performance," Proebstl said. Reinforcing the powerful impact of smart management can have in a super fund, Telstra Super chief executive Chris Davies said scale can also be achieved by smaller ...