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Factor investing must be long-term: Vanguard

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
Vanguard believes investors would be better off considering the characteristics of a certain factor and its addition to portfolio performance rather than purely targeting outperformance through factor-based funds. The fund manager's latest research ...

Advice dealer group hires state manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... Chetham was formerly an AMP practice development manager in Queensland and prior to that he was a development manager at Vanguard. He's held similar roles at financial solutions company Elston and executive search firm Human Solutions Group. Managing ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... market is becoming more efficient and the value of a single piece of data has decreased over time," Vodolazschi says. Vanguard head of investment, Asia-Pacific, Rodney Comegys attributes the increase in demand for these strategies to investors increasingly ...

Vanguard appoints three distribution heads

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Vanguard internally appointed three new heads of its distribution team. Matt Willis has become head of institutional, having previously been national sales manager - adviser, regional sales manager - northern, and business development manager. Rebecca ...

AIA launches digital life insurance advice tool

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... better decisions through the provision of cutting edge tools." Founded by former Westpac executive Hugh Morrow and former Vanguard Australia head Jeremy Duffield in 2012, SuperEd raised $800,000 in its first funding round in 2015, and is looking to raise ...

Forward thinking must underpin advice: Vanguard

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Financial advisers should look beyond short term economic and geopolitical events to long term global trends, Vanguard global chief economist and investment strategy group head Joseph Davis says. Speaking at the fund manager's adviser roadshow in Sydney ...

Vanguard introduces low-cost active funds

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
Vanguard Australia is now offering three quantitative low-cost active funds as part of an expansion to its product offering. The three new funds: Vanguard Global Quantitative Equity Fund; Vanguard Global Value Equity Fund; and Vanguard Global Minimum ...

Vanguard chief says embrace robo-advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... concerned with business growth and more concerned with doing well for their clients. That is a key message shared by Vanguard chief executive Bill McNabb at the 2017 SMSF Association National Conference, telling delegates that business growth takes care ...

Distrust is super's biggest challenge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
... distrust millennials have in the financial services industry at large following years of scrutiny. New research from Vanguard comparing the retirement savings systems of Australia, the UK, US and New Zealand shows that Australian investors have the highest ...

Pinnacle grows distribution capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... Management - in engaging with the institutional marketplace. In the past Teng has served as a senior distribution executive at Vanguard, Orchard Funds Management and Macquarie Professional Series. Pinnacle director of distribution Andrew Chambers said ...