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Industry fund renews custodian

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
A $46 billion industry fund has reappointed its custodian for another three years, extending the 20-year partnership. J.P. Morgan will continue to provide custody and fund services to HESTA. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said: "We have an ambitious ...

Quant manager seeks to unscramble cryptocurrency dictionary

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... Ledford said natural language processing (the interaction between computers and the written word) has become a key research focus for the quantitative manager. "We've been exploring numerical data for decades and there's certain numerical data ...

Aviva chief executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... delivers to its full potential. Our priority is to ensure, with our new chief executive, that we have the right strategy, focus, capabilities and leadership." After the new chief executive is appointed, the board said Montague will revert to his role ...

What do future asset managers look like?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... of exceptional investment capabilities with other key compass points being global talent; insights driven; and long-term focus. "When looking at pensions, it is not enough to simply take a pot of money and invest it with fiduciary compliant and benchmark ...

ASIC bans Spectrum Wealth adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... advice, ASIC said, rather helps target surveillance activity. The LILD Project was established in August 2016 to help ASIC focus its surveillance of life insurance advice, with the aim of improving life insurance advice provided to consumers. Mehra has ...

Scale integral to adviser success

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
The successful financial advice businesses of the future will be those that have gained effective scale. That is the view of Fortnum Private Wealth, believing the increasingly challenging nature of running an advice business will give rise to advice ...

MetLife scores group insurance mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... "Obviously, we're delighted to be chosen as their insurance partner and we believe that strong cultural fit and customer focus will give Tasplan's members a great insurance inside super offering." "We know there is no 'one size fits all' and we look ...

Analysts await next Magellan move

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... of day-to-day operational management and investment roles," an analyst note said. "This enables Douglass to increase his focus on his core roles of chief investment officer and lead portfolio manager of Magellan's Global Equities strategies, which ...

Former Perpetual staffer joins Nanuk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... extensive global investment experience and proven skill are highly complementary to our investment team and the firm's dedicated focus on sustainably-themed investing," Siegloff said. "Jane will further assist in our single-minded endeavour to seek out ...

RC interim report is fair: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Findings in Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's interim report are fair and reasonable, according to Financial Standard's latest spot poll. The interim report, which summarised his views of the first four rounds of hearings, included financial advice ...