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Milford adds to global product suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
Milford Asset Management is bringing three new funds to the Australian market, targeting financial advisers and investors looking for globally diversified solutions. The expanded global offering follows Milford's appointment of a head of global equities ...

CareSuper risk chief departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
The industry superannuation fund is hunting a new chief risk officer after the incumbent took a role with AustralianSuper. Belinda Ray served as CareSuper's chief risk officer for the past decade, having joined the fund in January 2012. She will join ...

PIMCO preps long-awaited LIT launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
In what will be more than two years after its launch was initially flagged, PIMCO's first local listed investment trust will begin trading on the ASX next month. Plans for the LIT were first announced in November 2019, with the fixed income giant anticipating ...

Leadership shuffle, redundancies at OpenMarkets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
Trading platform OpenMarkets has a new chief executive and has made 21 employees redundant, as rumours swirl that it will shortly be acquired. A spokesperson for the company confirmed that it had made 21 redundancies since the beginning of the year ...

Aussie small-cap fund returns 40%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
A Bennelong small-caps fund outperformed the index nearly fourfold over the last three years, an analysis of the sector shows. The Bennelong Funds Management Emerging Companies Fund returned 40.4% p.a., Rainmaker's research on the wholesale funds ...

NEOS hires operations chief, launches new product

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
NEOS has named a new operations chief who hails from Westpac and BT, and announced it partnered with a major life insurer to launch a new product. Adam Lister is the new chief operations officer, joining from Westpac in February. Lister was Westpac's ...

Biden signs executive order on digital assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on ensuring the responsible development of digital assets, in a move that has seen the price of Bitcoin jump. Signed overnight, the executive order outlines the first whole-of-government strategy ...

ASIC sets adviser exam dates

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
ASIC has set the final three sitting dates for the financial adviser exam in 2022. Following the first round of exams that took place in February, ASIC announced new sitting dates yesterday. Enrolments for the May sitting open on April 4 and close on ...

Ironbark brings new global small companies fund to Aussie investors

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
A growing appetite for global small companies across institutional and wholesale investors has seen Ironbark Asset Management partner with US-based investment manager Apis Capital Advisors (Apis) to launch the Ironbark Apis Global Small Companies Fund. ...

Advisers can help female clients 'break the bias'

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
While the proportion of women investing is picking up the pace, the number of female investors still lags behind men - but financial advisers can help. At an International Women's Day event today, BT head of risk strategies and research Kirsty Wymer ...