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Industry fund awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
A $7 billion industry fund has awarded a mandate for an indexing strategy. Energy Super has awarded Robeco a $650 million global equity mandate to the manager's Enhanced Indexing strategy. Robeco's Enhanced Indexing strategy incorporates sustainability ...

Netwealth leads the platform pack

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... Netwealth, HUB24, BT Panorama, Praemium and OneVue. Investment Trends awarded Macquarie Wrap the 'best new functionality award', for its digital portfolio manager product, which it said, helps advisers deliver affordable, scalable advice. "Compliance ...

Super fund director departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... board director to represent Group E, after Hendrik van Calcar stepped down in December. Group E includes airline officers' award level 5 - senior professional 2, executive/management framework employees, business & information technology professionals ...

Perpetual awards mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
An American fund manager has scored Perpetual as its first Aussie institutional client with a credit mandate. Perpetual has mandated Thornburg Investment Management which is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico and represented here by Melbourne-based ...

New board member at EQT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... chair of portfolio company TalkiPlay. She was a finalist for the Association of Financial Advisers' Adviser of the Year Award in 2014 and won the AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award in 2013 and the Financial Planning Association of Australia's CFP ...

Custodial excellence recognised

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... also led the discussion on how ACSA positions itself internally and externally." The association's service to the industry award was presented to State Street head of global services Daniel Cheever, with Knights recognising his 21 years of service to ...

Praemium expanding in UK, growing managed accounts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
Listed platform Praemium's half yearly results included an update about its UK business and its virtual managed accounts portfolios. The virtual managed accounts had a strong uplift, contributing to platform revenue being up 22%. Praemium's Virtual ...

How to lose a mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... 20 managers. How long it takes to win a mandate The study also looked at how long it took for institutional investors to award a mandate, discovering new mandates can be awarded in less than a month if there is already an existing relationship.However ...

Asset manager to be liquidated

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
Global Merces Funds Management has come to an end as the financial services company is set to be wound-up. ASIC obtained orders to wind-up the Brisbane-based company on "just and equitable grounds" stating the proceedings were commenced to protect the ...

ISA reaffirms stance on super guarantee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... recommended that super funds need to meet performance benchmarks or be removed from the system by APRA, expanding workplace award coverage and lowering the taper rate to $2 to remove a disincentive to save for middle income earners. It also recommended ...