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Infrastructure manager grows local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
A global infrastructure manager has hired from Clearview and Powerwrap as it expands its Australian team. RARE infrastructure has hired Hamish Bell to support its distribution team with investment and technical sales expertise. In his most recent role ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
When the going gets tough, China's authorities get going. Fresh data that showed the Chinese economy slowed to 6.5% in the year to the September quarter shouldn't have generated big concerns - despite headlines that it is the slowest growth ...

NobleOak wins best direct life insurer award

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Strategic Insight has recognised NobleOak as the best direct life insurer in 2018. Strategic Insight presented its annual Direct Life Insurance Awards at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Thursday. In addition to scoring the Overall Direct ...

What 1% in fees could do to investments

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Advisers paying just 1% more for investments could erode their clients' nest eggs by 26% over 30 years, according to new data modelling from InvestSMART. InvestSMART researchers found stark differences in the outcomes for investors paying different ...

ASIC moves on Dollarmites

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
ASIC is set to review banking and financial literacy programs in Australian primary schools, including Commonwealth Bank's recently criticised Dollarmites program. ASIC said school banking programs are supposed to educate young Australians about the ...

Chief economist update: Still the lucky country?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Financial markets remain in a state of flux as investors' chills appear to be multiplying on growing concerns over: Wall Street's heightened volatility, Fed rate rises and the risk of a policy mistake, Trump's protectionist policy, China's ...

BennBridge boutique launches small caps fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
A boutique under Bennelong Funds Management's UK business BennBridge has launched a new fund that will invest in UK small caps. Tellworth Investments LLP is starting the new fund LF Tellworth UK Smaller Companies Fund, which will hold 40-60 stocks. ...

Industry fund drops life premiums, pension fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
A $1.5 billion industry superannuation fund is reducing select insurance premiums after renegotiating its group insurance mandate. It also slashed the administration fee on its pension account. Under a new group cover deal with MetLife, REI Super has ...

New Pinnacle affiliate to manage Blue Sky LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
Ian Macoun's multi-boutique house has launched a new affiliate that will manage the Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund (BAF) as it separates from Blue Sky Investments (BLA). With the bifurcation announced this morning, BLA will target an institutional ...

Chief economist update: Bull markets don't die of old age

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Trump's continued criticisms wouldn't hurt me! US President Donald Trump has blamed the Fed for sparking the recent sell-off on Wall Street as well as threatening to undo the "good" for the economy that ...