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CFS launches app for advisers

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
Colonial First State (CFS) has launched a new mobile app on both Apple and Android devices that aims to cut down the time financial advisers spend on administration. The initial app release allows advisers who use CFS platforms to have free access to ...

Investec buys stake in equity crowdfunding fintech

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... Australia. We understand their focus on core specialist and investment banking businesses in Australia and their conviction that smart capital intermediation, which is what Equitise does, fits this mandate." The Centre for International Finance and Regulation ...

Actuaries Institute appoints new president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
The Actuaries Institute is aiming to increase its influence in Australia's data analytics industry, appointing a new president to oversee the profession's changing business environment. New president Lindsay Smartt said many actuaries were now nominating ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... severe and onerous for more than a decade with no signs of respite. The success formula remains being tough on risk and being smart on governance," Urwin said.

WAM Capital profit triples

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
WAM Capital has more than tripled its after tax operating profit to $74.6 million for the half year to 31 December 2015, following strong outperformance of the market. After tax profit rose 224.9% from $23 million in the same period in 2014, while the ...

Bell Direct to deliver "smarter robo-advice"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Online broker Bell Direct has partnered with Lincoln Indicators to give clients access to the Stock Doctor research platform. As a result, Bell Direct clients using Stock Doctor to research equities (and how they fit into investment objectives) can ...

S&P launches long-term sustainability index

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... pleased to see ideas raised through FCLT take practical form in this important new index for global markets. The Index is smart and innovative and we will be looking hard at how we might add it to our toolkit for long term investing." This index follows ...

Lifecycle funds startlingly varied

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
New research into lifecycle superannuation funds shows little consistency between approaches and vast gulfs in exposure to equity risk across similar age cohorts. Industry researcher Rainmaker has turned its eye to the product segment as the depth of ...

Silk joins PRI advisory committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... screening and active ownership, and provide insight into innovative approaches to integrating ESG considerations, such as in smart beta and strategic beta strategies," a PRI statement said. Silk's appointment follows news in November that HESTA chair ...

IFM Investors launches new equities team

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... Investors is one of Australia's largest enhanced passive equities managers and recently launched a global enhanced passive and smart beta equity offering. Its active small caps strategy also reached soft close last year. The company manages about $64.5 ...