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UBS wins pensions mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... Pension Schemes ACCESS (A Collaboration of Central, Eastern and Southern Shires) pool - the combined assets of 11 of the United Kingdom's schemes - consolidated its passive equity mandates, appointing UBS to manage the funds. The 10-year agreement comes ...

Standard Life launches impact fund, appoints managers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... It will hold a high-conviction portfolio of 35 to 60 stocks, all which meet a series of criteria designed to reflect the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The criteria are that stocks "support the delivery of measurable, positive environmental ...

ASIC adds life insurance to school curriculums

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... Professional Standards for Teachers workforce. In the same vein, albeit via a different means of delivery, schools in the United States are also benefitting from financial literacy initiatives; rock band Gooding is travelling the country, performing ...

IOOF subsidiary partners with venerable global non-profit

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... relationship that will further enhance the support AET provides to philanthropists and their advisers." "Both RPA and AET are united by our common vision to help clients make lasting and effective contributions to charitable programs, projects or organisations ...

Asset managers must work on unique value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... portfolios as a result of greater competition in the sector. Research from Cerulli Associates shows 58% of asset managers in the United States are currently offering asset allocations consisting entirely of their own underlying strategies, with Cerulli ...

The British pound's sterling reversal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... July). The consequence of this negative real wage growth has been documented in the 'IHS Markit Household Finance Index - United Kingdom' report for the third quarter. The key points of which are: September data reveals sharp deterioration in UK household ...

AMP joins forces with US advice firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... new wealth management operating system and share intellectual property. As per a formalised partnership with advice firm United Capital, AMP has made a non-material investment in United Capital as the businesses collaborate in developing a plan to share ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... risen to 2.13%. All these, because nuclear war didn't break out. The expected serious escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea didn't materialise. It still is as it was... hreats ("gift packages to the US") and counter-threats ...

Boutiques actively proving value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... Fidante's study, titled 'The boutique advantage', was modelled on a similar study conducted by Affiliated Managers Group in the United States which delivered similar results. The analysis did not include multi-managers, index funds or listed investment ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Scary headlines over the prospect of an all-out war between North Korea and the United States (and its allies) continue to flood cyberspace. The latest of which is America's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley's remark that Kim Jong-un is "begging ...