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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 ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... category didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. It's the Magellan Global Equities Fund and in November it earned $370,000 in management fees on funds of ...

MySuper assets rise strongly

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... continue to have high Accrued Default Amounts. Examples of new leading retail products include BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice MySuper. In terms of product numbers, while there is a relatively equal number of retail and industry MySuper products ...

Whitehelm and Cisco to deliver digital city management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
Whitehelm Capital are partnering with US IT giant Cisco to deliver low-cost "smart city" management services. The services include dynamic sensor-based street lighting; parking, traffic, security, water and waste management; and "eco-friendly" urban ...

Seniors react to Commission's retirement housing idea

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... reverse mortgages in retirement." PWC partner and Actuaries Institute housing working group head Catherine Nance said some smart thinking is needed about how to remove impediments to allow retirees to make better use of their housing wealth. The institute ...