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Victorian super funds discuss merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018

... Victorian industry superannuation funds are in talks to merge, highlighting the benefits of scale to about 120,000 members. Prime Super and Combined Super have signed a memorandum of understanding, announcing the two funds are in advanced merger discussions. ...

Prime Financial boosts wealth focus

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018

Prime Financial Group is ramping up its wealth management focus and stepping away from minority interests in accounting firms. The ASX-listed firm said this is part of a strategy to increase its exposure in wealth management by concentrating on its ...

AustralianSuper exec makes next top CIO list

KANIKA SOOD | FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018

... Allocators list, which considered employees from three continents. He is the only Australian to have made the list. "Barker has a prime pre-CIO role at Australia's largest retirement fund, which is arguably the world's best overall system. He's ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018

... confrontational than China, the EU or even Canada but Japan had rarely been on headlines in recent times. It's back again when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to Washington to meet with the US president about North Korea and trade. Early reports were ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018

Quitaly and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's exit and the curious case of the US-North Korea summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018

... government. However, unlikely to win vote of confidence, setting stage for snap election seen as referendum on the euro. In Spain, prime minister Rajoy to face no-confidence vote on Friday (though likely to survive)." Recall the financial market mayhem ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018

... coalition government led by Giuseppe Conte. In Spain, the prospect of early elections - on calls for votes of no-confidence in Prime Minister Rajoy's government amidst graft on corruption - have taken Spain's IBEX index down 7.4% from the 2018 ...

Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD | FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018

... ruled to have engaged in unconscionable conduct, it traded with the dominant purpose of influencing the yields of traded Prime Bank Bills and the BBSW was set in a way that was favourable to its rate set exposure. A future hearing will decide the penalty ...

Agriculture investment under parliament microscope

HARRISON WORLEY | FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018

... has long been a bugbear of the Coalition, with Barnaby Joyce previously making several comments during his time as Deputy Prime Minister encouraging super funds to invest. In 2015, corporate advisory firm BDO and The University of Queensland released ...

AustralianSuper recruiting new property lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018

... horizons." The fund announced in March it would be expanding its property mandate into the European market, investing in prime and super prime office and retail property opportunities. Former Frontier Advisors chief executive Damian Moloney was appointed ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:33PM

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA | 11:56AM

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI | 11:09AM

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA | 12:20PM

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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