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NAB Wealth appoints Apogee GM

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
The new general manager of Apogee Financial Planning will be Brendan Johnson, NAB Wealth confirmed today. Johnson brings 17 years of experience across financial planning, practice management and compliance fields. Since joining MLC in 2002, Johnson ...

VicSuper hires alternative investment specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
VicSuper is joining a wealth of superannuation funds increasing their allocation to alternative assets, and in doing so has appointed a new executive to its investment team. VicSuper recently increased its strategic allocation to alternative assets ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... authority to make investment decisions on behalf of private and public pension funds, endowments and foundations, and sovereign wealth funds in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US. It found that 86% of respondents have implemented downside protection strategies ...

Redpoint awarded MLC equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... Redpoint Investment Management has been awarded a significant global equities index mandate from one of Australia's largest wealth managers, MLC Investments. Redpoint will manage the global shares strategy within the low-cost MLC Index Plus portfolios ...

Advisers waiting on the sidelines with smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... Interest in and Requirements for Smart Beta ETFs' report, which gathered views from 222 institutional investors and private wealth advisers in Europe. The survey found that 88% of the respondents think that smart beta indices require full transparency ...

Cost cuts put research at risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
Concerns are mounting that the push to lower operating costs in reaction to FoFA and competitive pressures will drive wealth groups to keep pruning their research capabilities, driving clients to source third-party solutions or reduce the role of research ...

Spring FG to launch digital advice platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Spring FG will launch a digital advice platform that will allow users to manage their bank accounts, investments and superannuation assets in one place. Spring247 will be available in July and has been developed by fintech specialist My Prosperity. ...

Wilson HTM shareholders approve acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... Craigs Investment Partners (40%) and Deutsche Bank (20%). Wilson HTM Securities and Advisory will look after WIG's private wealth, corporate advisory, institutional equities and research divisions. At the same time, Wilson HTM created the role of head ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... increase exports (while at the same time putting downward pressure on prices); if financial markets stumble, the negative wealth effect this would create and which, in turn, would turn consumer and business optimism into pessimism and subsequently, spending ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... if you're vertically-integrated - given that the scandals around this were from vertically-integrated businesses." NAB Wealth chief executive Andrew Hagger said in a statement that the package represented a "positive step for the industry subject to ...